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TO Jenny came a gentle youth From inland leazes lone; His love was fresh as apple-blooth By Parrett,
Yeo, or Tone
And duly he entreated her To be his tender minister, And call him aye her own
Fair Jenny's life had hardly been A life...

Let the bird of loudest lay On the sole Arabian tree Herald sad and trumpet be, To whose sound chaste wings obey
But thou shrieking harbinger, Foul precurrer of the fiend, Augur of the fever's end, To this troop come thou not near
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