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/ I saw a name carved on a tree -- "Julia"; / A simpler name there could not be -- Julia: / But seeing it I seemed to see / A Devon garden, -- pleasantly / About a parsonage, -- the bee / Made drowsy-sweet; where rosemary / And pink and phlox and peony / Bowed down to one / Whom Herrick made to bloom in Poetry.
/ A moment there I saw her stand, -- Julia; / A gillyflower in her hand, -- Julia: / And then, kind-faced and big and bland, / As raised by some magician's wand, / Herrick himself passed by, sun-tanned, / And smiling; and the quiet land / Seemed to take on and understand / A dream long dreamed, / And for the lives of two some gladness planned.