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1892–1953

Meadow and Orchard.

Edward Shanks

My heart is like a meadow, Where clouds go over, Dappling the mingled grass and clover With mingled sun and shadow,

With light that will not stay And shade that sails away. Your heart is like an orchard, That has the sun for ever in its leaves,

Where, on the grass beneath the trees, There falls the shadow of the fruit That ripen there for me.

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