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WHEN loud by landside streamlets gush, / And clear in the greenwood quires the thrush, / With sun on the meadows / And songs in the shadows / Comes again to me / The gift of the tongues of the lea, / The gift of the tongues of meadows.
Straightway my olden heart returns / And dances with the dancing burns; / It sings with the sparrows; / To the rain and the (grimy) barrows / Sings my heart aloud- / To the silver-bellied cloud, / To the silver rainy arrows.
It bears the song of the skylark down, / And it hears the singing of the town; / And youth on the highways / And lovers in byways / Follows and sees: / And hearkens the song of the leas / And sings the songs of the highways.
So when the earth is alive with gods, / And the lusty ploughman breaks the sod, / And the grass sings in the meadows, / And the flowers smile in the shadows, / Sits my heart at ease, / Hearing the song of the leas, / Singing the songs of the meadows.