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Around, around— above, above,
In air, in air— everywhere, everywhere',

3. 'Ti^ ^ charming place, this farmer's dell,
Where the busy echoes faint anti sw ell;
Even the birds have i earned their notes
.Are answered back from fairy throats.
The rocks so bare, and brown and .still,
Resound with LIicj nott^ of the v.-'liippcvnvjr ;
Arid even the sombre hemlock tree
Repeats the song of the cliick-a-decP

4. Oh ! hie to the place where the echoes meet,
Down in the farmer's sylvan retreat;

The melody there you never have heard ;
Sing but a line, or even a word,
And the mimicking rogues repeal the strain,
And a chorus answers back a^aiti.

5. But the pleasantest hours are soonest speds
And the midday s:.in ia overhead.

Just now, while listening down in tlie dell,
Far a wav the so Lind of the old church-bell
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With its iron tongue dunied the hour of noon;

Bell, bell—.bell, bell— bell, bdl,
Bcli, bell— he 11, bdl-— bed, bell.

Oh f the echoes! how they s h o u t!
Merrily, merrily in and out;

Sh t.) u t, s/i out I — h o li n d, hound-— hoi! o —hollo !
11 i\ ! H a 1 Ha I Ha ! -fo U o w, follow.
M k s . H , M . M i l l e r .