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The treadAnd hears them never pause, but pass and die.
— Footsteps
The treadAnd hears them never pause, but pass and die.
There scatter'd oft the earliest of ye YearAnd little Footsteps lightly print the ground.
And so to treadNor prest a flower, nor bow'd a stalk.
Her treading would not bend a blade of grass,Or shake the downy blow-ball from his stalk!
A foot more light, a step more true,Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew.
The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light.
Steps with a tender foot, light as on air,The lovely, lordly creature floated on.
Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne.
