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...but did not press, In making England); such an up-anddown Of verdure, nothing too much up or down, A ripple of land; such little hills the sky Can stoop...daisies from white dew; at intervals The mythic oaks and.elm-trees standing out Self-poised upon their prodigy of shade, — I thought my father's land...

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...learnt to love that England . . . such an up and down Of verdure, — nothing too much up or down, A ripple of land ; such little hills, the sky Can...and the wheatfields climb ; Such nooks of valleys . . . Fed full of noises by invisible streams ; And open pastures . . . at intervals The mystic oaks...

...off into the void, Spires, bridges, streets and squares, as if a spunge Had wiped out London ". Or: " A ripple of land : such little hills, the sky Can...the wheatfields climb. Such nooks of valleys lined by orchises, Fed full of noises by invisible streams ; And open pastures where you scarcely tell White...