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Poems Of Robert Browning: Home-Thoughts, From Abroad
From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Browning, Robert
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Home-Thoughts, From Abroad
O, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm - tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England - now!
And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows! Hark, where my blossom'd pear - tree in the hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops - at the bent spray's edge - That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you ...
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