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Last Line: Where life is wise and innocent
Subject(s): Stones


Who fancied what a pretty sight
This Rock would be if edged around
With living snow-drops? circlet bright!
How glorious to this orchard-ground!
Who loved the little Rock, and set
Upon its head this coronet?
Was it the humour of a chilD?
Or rather of some gentle maid,
Whose brows, the day that she was styled
The shepherd-queen, were thus arrayed?
Of man mature, or matron sage?
Or old man toying with his age!
I asked--'twas whispered; the device
To each and all might well belong:
It is the Spirit of Paradise
That gives to all the self-same bent
Where life is wise and innocent





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