That again you've kept me waiting?

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Wondering, anticipating,

If your "yes" meant "no."

Now you're here we'll have our day....

Let us take this daisied hollow,

And beneath these beeches follow

This wild strip of way

Towards the stream; wherein are seen

Stealing gar and darting minnow;

Over which snake-feeders winnow

Wings of black and green.

Like a cactus flames the sun;

And the mighty weaver, Even,

Tenuous colored, there in heaven,

His rich weft's begun....

How I love you! from the time—

You remember, do you not?—

When, within your orchard-plot,

I was reading rhyme,

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