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by Unknown

While the whole camp with “Nell” on English meadows

Wandered and lost their way.

And so, in mountain solitudes, o’ertaken

As by some spell divine,

Their cares drop from them like the needles shaken

From out the gusty pine.

Lost is that camp, and wasted all its fire,

And he who wrought that spell;

Ah! towering pine and stately Kentish spire,

Ye have one tale to tell!