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HEDGE by CAMELIN WHITE

First Line: I HAVE A HEDGE; TO PASSERS BY
Last Line: AROUND A BIT OF KANSAS LAWN.
Subject(s): HEDGES;

I have a hedge; to passers by
It's just a boundary, but to me
It spells a meager recompense
For storied lands I'll never see.

Always in books I lived and rode
With hunter, horn, lean hounds, and fox
Through meadows bound with English hedge --
Past gardens framed in yew or box.

Though England I may never see,
Nor hear the lark's clear call at dawn,
Yet I've a hedgerow neatly clipped
Around a bit of Kansas Lawn.



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