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I. BESIDE the Mead of Memories, / Where Church-way mounts to Moaning Hill, / The sad man sighed his phantasies: / He seems to sigh them still.
II. "Twas the Birth-tide Eve, and the hamleteers / Made merry with ancient Mellstock zest, / But the Mellstock quire of former years / Had entered into rest.