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The blackened walnut in its spicy hull / Rots where it fell; / And, in the orchard, where the trees stand full, / The pear's ripe bell / Drops; and the log-house in the bramble lane, / From whose low door / Stretch yellowing acres of the corn and cane, / He sees once more.
The cat-bird sings upon its porch of pine; / And o'er its gate, / All slender-podded, twists the trumpet-vine, / A leafy weight; / And in the woodland, by the spring, mayhap, / With eyes of joy / Again he bends to set a rabbit-trap, / A brown-faced boy.