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...Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delay'd : Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please : How often have 1 loiter'd o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'd each scene! How often have I paused on every...

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