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SONG OF THE GREENWOOD FAGOT.
Oh! a bonnie thing am I, when the woodman binds me up,
For he takes me with the green leaf and the tawny acorn cup;
He takes me in the forest, while the soft wind loiters through,
Where my branches bear the ringdove and my young bark drinks the dew.

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