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  • Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping
    Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star.
    Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried,
    Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar.

    1851 Poems,'Love in the Valley', stanza 5. The poemwas revised and republished in1878.