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  • When loud by landside streamlets gush,
    And clear in the greenwood quires the thrush,
    With sun on the meadows
    And songs in the shadows
    Comes again to me
    The gift of the tongues of the lea,
    The gift of the tongues of meadows.
    So when the earth is alive with gods,
    And the lusty ploughman breaks the sod,
    And the grass sings in the meadows,
    And the flowers smile in the shadows,
    Sits my heart at ease,
    Hearing the song of the leas,
    Singing the songs of the meadows.

    Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.3765, Delphi Classics