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All fresh as morn, as early summer gay,And sweetly fragrant as the breath of May:Health decks their comely cheeks with rosy grace,And innocence plays cheerful o'er their face:Love lends his pinions, swift the shepherd springs,And to the fold the milky mothers brings. 140Then frolic nymphs and swains with sportful glee;Pure are their hearts, and their behaviour free:The foaming pails, which snowy floods o'erflow,Raised on their heads, they singing homeward go. Such scenes adorn bright Dara's silver course,Who amorous yields to Clyde's inferior force;Who girds Leadhills, for wealthy mines renowned,And Crawford's spacious downs, where flocks abound;Where Elvin fierce, with dark Dunneeten flows,And where his ore-stained stream Glengonnar shows. 150 Let Grecian poets sing in deathless strains,Arcadia's mountains green, and flowery plains;Let them with tuneful gods and shepherds throng,And lovely nymphs, that native land of song:Yet not famed Mænalus, great Pan's abode,Nor fair Cyllene, by sage Hermes trod,Prouder than Douglas' hills or Crawford's rise,Or lift their haughty heads so near the skies:
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