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Long after it was heard no more...

B EHOLD  her, single in the field,   Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reaping and singing by herself;   Stop here, or gently pass! Alone she cuts and binds the grain,           And sings a melancholy strain; O listen! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. No Nightingale did ever chaunt   More welcome notes to weary bands    Of travellers in some shady haunt,   Among Arabian sands: A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the seas    Among the farthest Hebrides. ...