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Stanza 4 70

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“Birds of the feral kind, and kine, and flocks, ’bode in the shadows of the shaggy wood:

A thousand herbs and trees with gnarled stocks, barring the paths of passing mortals stood.

Adverse had ever been those mountain-rocks to human intercourse, and clearly show’d, never since Adam sinned against our days, brake foot of man this breadth of bosky maze.

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