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HE EXTOLS THE LAUREL AND ITS FAVOURITE STREAM.
Not all the streams that water the bright earth, / Not all the trees to which its breast gives birth, / Can cooling drop or healing balm impart / To slack the fire which scorches my sad heart, / As one fair brook which ever weeps with me, / Or, which I praise and sing, as one dear tree.