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The chestnut trees are soon to flower / At fair _Saint Jean,_ the villa dipped / In sun, before whose viny tower / Stretch purple mountains silver-tipped.
The little leaves that yesterday / Pressed in their bodices were seen / Have put their sober garb away, / And touched the tender twigs with green.