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THE HEART OF ENGLAND

leopard's bane and red honesty and sang by the windows—


"Please to remember the first of May,
For the first of May is Garland Day."


And they carried garlands of ivy entwined among bluebells and cowslips from the moist warm copses and the meadows.

On the twin vanes of the oasts, one pointing east, one north, the south wind and the west wind were asleep in one another's arms.

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