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 It's surely summer. for there's a swallow:
 Come one swallow, his mate will follow,
  The bird race read more 
 It's surely summer. for there's a swallow:
 Come one swallow, his mate will follow,
  The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken. 
 The swallow sweeps
 The slimy pool, to build his hanging house.  
 The swallow sweeps
 The slimy pool, to build his hanging house. 
 Down comes rain drop, bubble follows;
 On the house-top one by one
  Flock the synagogue of swallows,
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 Down comes rain drop, bubble follows;
 On the house-top one by one
  Flock the synagogue of swallows,
   Met to vote that autumn's gone. 
 One swallow alone does not make the summer.
 [Sp., Una golondrina sola no hace verano.]  
 One swallow alone does not make the summer.
 [Sp., Una golondrina sola no hace verano.] 
 The swallow is come!
 The swallow is come!
  O, fair are the seasons, and light
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 The swallow is come!
 The swallow is come!
  O, fair are the seasons, and light
   Are the days that she brings,
    With her dusky wings,
     And her bosom snowy white! 
 When autumn scatters his departing gleams,
 Warn'd of approaching winter, gather'd, play
  The swallow-people; and toss'd wide read more 
 When autumn scatters his departing gleams,
 Warn'd of approaching winter, gather'd, play
  The swallow-people; and toss'd wide around,
   O'er the calm sky, in convolution swift,
    The feather'd eddy floats; rejoicing once,
     Ere to their wintry slumbers they retire. 
One swallowe proveth not that summer is neare.
One swallowe proveth not that summer is neare.
 There goes the swallow,--
 Could we but follow!
  Hasty swallow, stay,
   Point us out read more 
 There goes the swallow,--
 Could we but follow!
  Hasty swallow, stay,
   Point us out the way;
    Look back swallow, turn back swallow, stop swallow. 
 The swallow follows not summer more willing than we your 
lordship.  
 The swallow follows not summer more willing than we your 
lordship.