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Flusheth the rise with her purple favour,Gloweth the cleft with her golden ring,'Twixt the two brown butterflies waverLightly settle, and sleepily swing.

We two walk till the purple diethAnd short dry grass under foot is brown,But one little streak at a distance liethGreen like a ribbon to prank the down.