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 By lichen small on granite wall Approved, its faintest feeblest stir Slow-spreading, strengthening long, at last Vibrated full in me and her.

In me and her—sensation strange! The lily grew to pendent head, To vernal airs the mossy bank Its sheeny primrose spangles spread, In roof o'er roof of shade sun-proof Did cedar strong itself outclimb, And altitude of aloe proud Aspire in floreal crown sublime;

Flashed flickering forth fantastic flies, Big bees their burly bodies swung, Rooks roused with civic din the elms, And lark its wild reveillez rung; In Libyan dell the light gazelle, The leopard lithe in Indian glade, And dolphin, brightening tropic seas, In us were living, leapt and played:

Their shells did slow crustacea build, Their gilded skins did snakes renew, While mightier spines for loftier kind Their types in amplest limbs outgrew;