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Ballade Of His Own Country

Andrew Lang

I scribbled on a fly-book’s leaves
Among the shining salmon-flies;
A song for summer-time that grieves
I scribbled on a fly-book’s leaves.
Between grey sea and golden sheaves,
Beneath the soft wet Morvern skies,
I scribbled on a fly-book’s leaves
Among the shining salmon-flies.
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From Rhymes a la Mode | Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885
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