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First Line: Nestled into a hollow of the downs
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Landscape


Nestled into a hollow of the downs,
Where sheep stray widely o'er the short green turf,
A little gray-wall'd church with lichen'd roof;
A farmyard and a huge old barn whose stacks
O'er-top the spire, the farmhouse lattices
Embower'd with vine; a figtree'd garden wall;
And one clump of rook-nested elms above
Gables and red tiled roofs and twisted chimneys.
An old green mound the summit crown'd,
Where dances the midnight elvish round,
Over the dust of pagan kings.
The bare green hills, the cloudy skies,
The sea that lone and sombre lies-






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