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 27 1886 /O 
 
 BOSTON 
 
 TICKNOR AND COMPANY 
 I 886 
 
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Places of nestling- ^reen for poets made. — Story of Rimini. 
 
 I STOOD tiptoe upon a little hill, 
 The air was cooling, and so very still, 
 That the sweet buds which with a modest pride 
 Pull droopingly, in slanting curve aside, 
 Their scanty-leaved and finely-tapering stems, 
 Had not yet lost the starry diadems 
 Caught from the early sobbing of the morn. 
 The clouds were pure and white as flocks new-shorn, 
 And fresh from the clear brook ; sweetly they slept 
 On the blue hills of heaven, and then there crept 
 A little noiseless noise among the leaves, 
 Born of the very sigh that silence heaves ; 
 For not the faintest motion could be seen 
 Of all the shades that slanted o'er the green. 
 There was wide wandering for the greediest eye. 
 To peer about upon variety ; 
 Far round the horizon's crystal air to skim, 
 And trace the dwindled edgings of its brim ; 
 To picture out the quaint and curious bending 
 Of a fresh woodland alley never-ending : 
 
A STROLL IVLTLI KEATS. 6 
 
 Or by the bowery clefts, and leafy shelves, 
 
 Guess where the jaunty streams refresh themselves. 
 
 I gazed awhile, and felt as light and free 
 
 As though the fanning wings of Mercury 
 
 Had play'd upon my heels: I was light-hearted, 
 
 And many pleasures to my vision started ; 
 
 So I straightway began to pluck a posy 
 
 Of luxuries bright, milky, soft and rosy. 
 
 A bush of May-flowers with the bees about them ; 
 
 Ah, sure no tasteful nook could be without them ! 
 
 And let a lush laburnum oversweep them, 
 
 And let long grass grow round the roots, to keep them 
 
 Moist, cool, and green ; and shade the violets, 
 
 That they may bind the moss in leafy nets. 
 
 Linger awhile upon some bending planks 
 
 That lean against a streamlet's rushy banks, 
 
 And watch intently Nature's gentle doings: 
 
 They will be found softer than ring-doves' cooings. 
 
 How silent comes the water round that bend ! 
 
 Not the minutest whisper does it send 
 
 To the o'erhanging sallows : blades of grass 
 
 Slowly across the chequer'd shadows pass. 
 
 Why, you might read two sonnets ere they reach 
 
 To where the hurrying freshnesses aye preach 
 
A STROLL WLTH KEATS. 
 
 A natural sermon o'er their pebbl}' beds ; 
 Where swarms of minnows show their little heads, 
 Staying their wavy bodies 'gainst the streams, 
 To taste the luxur}^ of sunny beams 
 Temper'd with coolness. . 
 
 Were I in such a place, I sure should pray 
 
 That nought less sweet might call my thoughts away, 
 
 Than the soft rustle of a maiden's gown 
 
 Fanning away the dandelion's down ; 
 
 Than the light music of her nimble toes 
 
 Patting against the sorrel as she goes. 
 
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 O'er which the mind may hover till it dozes ; 
 O'er which it well might take a pleasant sleep. 
 But that 'tis ever startled by the leap 
 Of buds into ripe flowers ; or by the flitting 
 Of divers moths, that aye their rest are quitting; 
 Or by the moon, lifting her silver rim 
 Above a cloud, and, with a gradual swim. 
 Coming into the blue with all her light. 
 
 But now no more — 
 My wandering spirit must no farther soar. 
 
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