| HAPPY is England! I could be content | |
| To see no other verdure than its own; | |
| To feel no other breezes than are blown | |
| Through its tall woods with high romances blent: | |
| Yet do I sometimes feel a languishment | 5 |
| For skies Italian, and an inward groan | |
| To sit upon an Alp as on a throne, | |
| And half forget what world or worldling meant. | |
| Happy is England, sweet her artless daughters; | |
| Enough their simple loveliness for me, | 10 |
| Enough their whitest arms in silence clinging: | |
| Yet do I often warmly burn to see | |
| Beauties of deeper glance, and hear their singing, | |
| And float with them about the summer waters. | |

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