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TO WALTER SCOTT; MELROSE by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR

First Line: HOW OFTEN HAS HE LINGERED HERE ALONE
Last Line: WHILE THE GREEN SLOPES FLUSH SLOWLY TO THE PLOW.
Subject(s): MELROSE MONASTERY, SCOTLAND; SCOTT, SIR WALTER (1771-1832);

HOW often has he lingered here alone
In such a golden evensong of spring,
Making the eye-sweet melody of stone
More lovely by his words' accompanying --
Singing for very youth of heart, compelled
By the keen urge of beauty, even as now
Tweed sings along the valley, April-swelled,
While the green slopes flush slowly to the plow.



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