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(_Lover's Ditty_)
I think of the slope where the rabbits fed, / Of the periwinks' rockwork lair, / Of the fuchsias ringing their bells of red- / And the something else seen there.
Between the blooms where the sod basked bright, / By the bobbing fuchsia trees, / Was another and yet more eyesome sight- / The sight that richened these.
I shall seek those beauties in the spring, / When the days are fit and fair, / But only as foils to the one more thing / That also will flower there!