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As, when in orange-lands God's day is ending, / The maids let fly the leafy boughs, and, lending / A helpful hand, the laden baskets lift / On head or hip, and fishing-boats adrift / Are drawn ashore, and, following the sun, / The golden clouds evanish, one by one; / As the full harmonies of eventide, / Swelling from hill and plain and riverside / Along the sinuous Argens -- airy notes / Of pastoral pipe, love-songs, and bleat of goats --
Grow fainter, and then wholly fade away, / And sombre night falls on the mountains gray; / Or as the last sigh of an anthem soft, / Or dying organ-peal, is borne aloft / O'er some old church, and on the wandering wind / Passes afar -- so passed the music twined / Of the three Maries' voices, heavenward carried.