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A PASTORAL

James Russell Lowell

DAPHNIS _waiting_

 

'O Dryad feet,

Be doubly fleet,

Timed to my heart's expectant beat

While I await her!

"At four," vowed she;

'Tis scarcely three,

Yet by _my_ time it seems to be

A good hour later!'