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Pegasus in Pound.




Once into a quiet village,Without haste and without heed,In the golden prime of morning,Strayed the poet's winged steed.
It was Autumn, and incessantPiped the quails from shocks and sheaves,And, like living coals, the applesBurned among the withering leaves.