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Sedged, composed of sedge or flags.—ns.

You nymphs, called Naiads, of the winding brooks, With your Sedged crowns and ever-harmless looks.

I know the wood which hides the daffodil, I know the Fyfield tree, I know what white, what purple fritillaries The grassy harvest of the river-fields, Above by Ensham, down by Sandford, yields, And what sedged brooks are Thames's tributaries; I know these slopes; who knows them if not I?—

You nymphs, call’d Naiads, of the windring brooks, With your sedged crowns and ever-harmless looks, 130 Leave your crisp channels, and on this green land Answer your summons; Juno does command: Come, temperate nymphs, and help to celebrate A contract of true love; be not too late.

Who, if not I, for questing here hath power?  105I know the wood which hides the daffodil, �106I know the Fyfield tree,� I know what white, what purple fritillaries The grassy harvest of the river-fields, �109Above by Ensham,� down by Sandford,� yields,  110And what sedged brooks are Thames's tributaries; I know these slopes; who knows them if not I?—