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First Line: Couched in cool shadow, girt by billowy swells
Last Line: The thrush's bridal passion, warm and soft!
Subject(s): May (month)


COUCHED in cool shadow, girt by billowy swells
Of foliage, rippling into buds and flowers,
Here I repose o'erfanned by breezy bowers, --
Lulled by a delicate stream whose music wells
Tender and low through those luxuriant dells,
Wherefrom a single broad-leaved chestnut towers; --
Still musing in the long, lush, languid hours, --
As in a dream I heard the tinkling bells
Of far-off kine, glimpsed through the verdurous sheen,
Blent with faint bleatings from the distant croft, --
The bee-throngs murmurous in the golden fern,
The wood-doves veiled by depths of flickering green, --
And near me, where the wild "queen fairies" burn,
The thrush's bridal passion, warm and soft!





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