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1820–1897

XLIV.

Jean Ingelow

Sigismund hath ricked the hay, He sitteth at close o’ a sultry day Under his mulberry boughs at ease. ‘ Hey for the world, and the world is wide,

The world is mine, and the world is — these Beautiful Malva leans at his side, And the small babbler talks at his knees.

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