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SONGS FOR SUMMER HOURS.




I.

AND I TOO IN ARCADIA.



A celebrated picture of Poussin represents a band of shepherd youths and maidens suddenly checked in their wanderings, and affected with various emotions by the sight of a tomb which bears this inscription—"Et in Arcadia ego."