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FROM ENGLAND.
FROM ENGLAND.
CITY’S BEAUTY.
Fair, oh, fair are the hills uncrowned, Only wreathed and garlanded With the soft clouds overhead, With the waving streams of rain; Fair in golden sunlight drowned, Bathed and buried in the bright Warm luxuriance of light,— Fair the hills without a stain. Fairer far the hills should stand Crownèd with a city’s halls, With the glimmer of white walls, With the climbing grace of towers; Fair with great fronts tall and grand, Stately streets that meet the sky, Lovely roof-lines, low and high,— Fairer for the days and hours. Woman’s beauty fades and flies, In the passing of the years, With the falling of the tears, With the lines of toil and stress; City’s beauty never dies,— Never while her people know How to love and honor so Her immortal loveliness.
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FROM ENGLAND.
FROM ENGLAND.