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Vesper Vale June, at evening, on the White Horse Hills! O, joy is overflowing, hope fulfilled, For summer lures long days to lavish pride. Lush her rising cornfields - rich the downs That trail, deep rounded, far to failing east. Hedgerows riot thick and countless starred; Green slopes are swathed with blush of clover pink. Beneath, past weighing elms, in soundless rest A village clusters down its ancient street. Distance silver, amber, stretches over; Wide the Vale and far the furthest view. Droop of sundown, musing, dwells the listless Prospect lightly. Sheltered farms, half hid, Yet lie outspread, and meadows lonely; woods Apparelled darkly - straying byways lost In gathered trees, and low-set fields struck gold By myriad buttercups. Afloat the plain Late scented breaths are stirred, and fitful murmurs. Hint of tedded hay pervades the heights' Rare potpourri. The listening air goes filled With trilling, winged of larks, from all the hills; In random field light-footed rabbits play And cattle gaze in deep unthoughtfulness. Roye England

Posted by wysefool 13th May 2007ce

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