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by Unknown

Lost is that camp! but let its fragrant story

Blend with the breath that thrills

With hop-vines’ incense, all the pensive glory

That thrills the Kentish hills;

And on that grave, where English oak and holly,

And laurel-wreaths entwine,

Deem it not all a too presumptuous folly,

This spray of Western pine!

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