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Who fancied what a pretty sightThis Rock would be if edged aroundWith living Snowdrops? circlet bright!How glorious to this Orchard ground!Who loved the little Rock, and setUpon its Head this Coronet?
Was it the humour of a Child?Or rather of some love-sick Maid,Whose brows, the day that she was styledThe Shepherd Queen were thus arrayed?Of Man mature, or Matron sage?Or old Man toying with his age?
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