Musical garland/The woodpecker

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The Woodpecker.

I knew by the smoke to so gracefully curl’d,
Over yonder green elms that a cottage was near:
And I said, if there's peace to be found in the world,
The heart that is humble might hope for it here.
Every leaf was at rest, and I heard not a sound.
But the Woodpecker taping the hollow beach tree.

​And here, in this lone little wood, I exclaim'd,
With a maid that's delightful to soul and to eye;
Who would blush'd when I prais'd her, would weep if I blam'd,
How contented I’d live, and how calm could I die.
Every leaf was at rest, &c.

By the shade of yon sumach, whose red berries dip,
In the gush of the fountain how sweet to recline,
And to know that I sigh'd upon innocent lips,
Which never were sigh'd on by any but mine.