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/ I. Thou sit'st among the sunny silences / Of terraced hills and woodland galleries, / Thou utterance of all calm melodies, / Thou lutanist of Earth's most affluent lute, -- / Where no false note intrudes / To mar the silent music, -- branch and root, -- / Charming the fields ripe, orchards and deep woods, / To song similitudes / Of flower and seed and fruit.
/ II. Oft have I seen thee, in some sensuous air, / Bewitch the broad wheat-acres everywhere / To imitated gold of thy deep hair: / The peach, by thy red lips' delicious trouble, / Blown into gradual dyes / Of crimson; and beheld thy magic double -- / Dark-blue with fervid influence of thine eyes -- / The grapes' rotundities, / Bubble by purple bubble.