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THE IVY SONG.
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And still let man his fabrics rear,
    August in beauty, stern in power,
—Days pass—thou Ivy never sere!*[1]
    And thou shalt have thy dower.
All are thine, or must be thine—
—Temple, pillar, shrine!

  1. *Ye Myrtles brown, and Ivy never sere.—Lycides.