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I know a village in a far-off
Where from a sunny, mountain-girdled
With tinted walls a space on either
And fed by many an olive-darkened

No, mother,
I am not sad: Why think me sad
I was always still, You remember, even when my heart was most glad And you used to let me dream at my will; And now I like better to watch the sea And the calm sad sky than to laugh with the res...

There's no smoke in the chimney, And the rain beats on the floor; There's no glass in the window, There's no wood in the door; The heather grows behind the house, And the sand lies before
No hand hath trained the ivy, The walls are grey and b...

O Love, my love, it's over then—Your heart flies free;
And it's now no more us two again,
The door on you and me
And it's now no more the supper spread,

I mind me in the days departed,
How often underneath the
With childish bounds I used to run    To a garden long deserted
The beds and walks were vanished quite;

But please walk softly as you do
Frogs dwell here and crickets too
Ain't no ceiling, only blue
Jays dwell here and sunbeams too