ODE LXXI.

With twenty chords my lyre is hung,

  And while I wake them all for thee,

Thou, O maiden, wild and young,

  Disportest in airy levity.

The nursling fawn, that in some shade

  Its antlered mother leaves behind,

Is not more wantonly afraid,

  More timid of the rustling wind!

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