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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.