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Into the open air once more! Yonder’s the edge of the garden-wall Where we may sit and talk,--deplore This half-hour lost from so bright a ball, Or praise my partner with the eyes And the raven hair, or the other one With her flaxen curls, and slow replies As near asleep in the Tuscan sun.