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Section 580 (9 years only)

CITY STREETS
AND COUNTRY ROADS


Eleanor Farjeon

The city has streets—
     But the country has roads.
In the country one meets
     Blue carts with their loads
Of sweet-smelling hay,
     And mangolds, and grain:
Oh, take me away
     To the country again!

In the city one sees
     Big trams rattle by,
And the breath of the chimneys
     That blot out the sky,
And all down the pavements
     Stiff lamp-posts one sees—
But the country has hedgerows,
     The country has trees.

As sweet as the sun
     In the country is rain:
Oh, take me away
     To the country again!


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