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/ I. Clad on with glowing beauty and the peace, / Benign, of calm maturity, she stands / Among her meadows and her orchard-lands, / And on her mellowing gardens and her trees, / Out of the ripe abundance of her hands / Bestows increase / And fruitfulness, as, wrapped in sunny ease, / Blue-eyed and blonde she goes / Upon her bosom Summer's richest rose.
/ II. And he who follows where her footsteps lead, / By hill and rock, by forest-side and stream, / Shall glimpse the glory of her visible dream, / In flower and fruit, in rounded nut and seed: / She, in whose path the very shadows gleam; / Whose humblest weed / Seems lovelier than June's loveliest flower, indeed, / And sweeter to the smell / Than April's self within a rainy dell.