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Poem Details
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| Title: | A Love Song from the Amorous Shepherd |
| Author: | Ngoc Nguyen |
| Date Submitted: | 10/9/2018 |
| Poem: |
They graze in beauty on the land of grassy glades and dewy dales, and all that's best of tamed and tanned meets in their aspect and their tails; thus mellowed to that tender hand which Shepherd to mild glen compels. One fleece the more, one spot the less, had half-repaired the shearless grace which wreathes in every woollen tress or darkly tightens o'er their face, where eyes serenely sweet express how pure, how dear their grazing race. And on that rump and o'er that round so fat, so plump, yet elegant, the baas that win, the hooves that bound, but tell of days in meadows spent— a flock at peace with all around, a drove whose milk is innocent.... |