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They wandered forth in springtime woods, / Three women, thickly hung / With yards and yards of woollen goods- / To play that they were young!
The river raced with the racing air; / The woods were wild with song; / The glad birds darted everywhere- / And so they walked along!
Stiff-bodied, fat, oppressed with cloth, / Dull-colored, sad to see, / Slow-moving over the bright grass, / Their shapeless shadows fall and pass, / And dreaming not-alas! alas! / Of what dear life might be!