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A MEDLEY.
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The dip of certain strata to the North.Would we go with her? we should find the land Worth seeing; and the river made a fallOut yonder: 'then she pointed on to whereA double hill ran up his dark-blue forksBeyond the full-leaved platans of the vale.
 Agreed to, this, the day fled on thro' all Its range of duties to the appointed hour. Then summon'd to the porch we went. She stood Among her maidens, higher by the head, Her back against a pillar, her foot on one Of those tame leopards, Kittenlike he roll'd And paw'd about her sandal. I drew near: My heart beat thick with passion and with awe, And from my breast the involuntary sigh Brake, as she smote me with the light of eyes That lent my knee desire to kneel, and shook My pulses, till to horse we clomb, and so Went forth in long retinue following up
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