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1. How brightly glistening in the sun
2. The woodland ivy plays!
3. While yonder beeches from their barks
4. Reflect his silver rays.
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6. That sun surveys a lovely scene
7. From softly smiling skies;
8. And wildly through unnumbered trees
9. The wind of winter sighs:
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11. Now loud, it thunders o'er my head,
12. And now in distance dies.
13. But give me back my barren hills
14. Where colder breezes rise;
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16. Where scarce the scattered, stunted trees
17. Can yield an answering swell,
18. But where a wilderness of heath
19. Returns the sound as well.
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21. For yonder garden, fair and wide,
22. With groves of evergreen,
23. Long winding walks, and borders trim,
24. And velvet lawns between;
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26. Restore to me that little spot,
27. With gray walls compassed round,
28. Where knotted grass neglected lies,
29. And weeds usurp the ground.
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31. Though all around this mansion high
32. Invites the foot to roam,
33. And though its halls are fair within--
34. Oh, give me back my HOME!