"A Spring o'erhung with many a flow'r, The grey sand dancing in its bed, Embank'd beneath a Hawthorn bower, Sent forth its waters near my head: A rosy Lass approach'd my view; I caught her blue eye's modest beam: The stranger nodded 'How d'ye do!' And leap'd across the infant stream."
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Rosy Hannah, stanza 1, from Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs (1802)
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Robert Bloomfield
Robert Bloomfield (December 3, 1766 – August 19, 1823) was a self-educated English peasant poet.
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