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Somewhere or other, may be far or near;
 With just a wall, a hedge, between;
With just the last leaves of the dying year
  Fallen on a turf grown green.

NOBLE SISTERS.

"NOW did you mark a falcon,
 Sister dear, sister dear,
Flying toward my window
 In the morning cool and clear?
With jingling bells about her neck,
 But what beneath her wing?
It may have been a ribbon,
 Or it may have been a ring."—
    "I marked a falcon swooping
     At the break of day:
    And for your love, my sister dove,
     I 'frayed the thief away."—

"Or did you spy a ruddy hound,
 Sister fair and tall,
Went snuffing round my garden bound,
 Or crouched by my bower wall?
With a silken leash about his neck;
 But in his mouth may be
A chain of gold and silver links,
 Or a letter writ to me."—