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SCENE I. -- COREy's farm as in Act II., Scene I. Enter RICHARD GARDNER, looking round him.
GARDNER. / Here stands the house as I remember it. / The four tall poplar-trees before the door; / The house, the barn, the orchard, and the well, / With its moss-covered bucket and its trough; / The garden, with its hedge of currant-bushes; / The woods, the harvest-fields; and, far beyond, / The pleasant landscape stretching to the sea. / But everything is silent and deserted! / No bleat of flocks, no bellowing of herds, / No sound of flails, that should be beating now; / Nor man nor beast astir. What can this mean?