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BALLAD STANZAS
(The Woodpecker.)
I knew by the smoke that so gracefully curl’d
Above the green elms, that a cottage was near,
And I said, “If there’s peace to be found in the world,
A heart that was humble might hope for it here!”
It was noon, and on flowers that languish’d around
In silence repos’d the voluptuous bee;
Every leaf was at rest, and I heard not a sound