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OF CORSICA.
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Woods crown our mountains, and in every grove
The bounding goats and frisking heifers rove:
Soft rains and kindly dews refresh the field.
And rising springs eternal verdure yield.
Ev'n to those shores is Ithaca renown'd.
Where Troy's majestick ruins strow the ground.

Pope.