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 Narcissus


 * O pool in which we dallied
 * And splashed the prostrate Noon!
 * O Water-boy, more pallid
 * Than any watery moon!
 * O Lilies round him turning!
 * O broken Lilies, strewn!
 * O silver Lutes of Morning!
 * O Red of the Drums of Noon!


 * O dusky-plumaged sorrow!
 * O ebon Swans of Care—
 * I sought thee on the Morrow,
 * And never found thee there!
 * I breathed the vapour-blended
 * Cloud of a dim despair:
 * White lily, is it ended?
 * Gold lily oh, golden hair!


 * The pool that was thy dwelling
 * I hardly knew again,
 * So black it was, and swelling
 * With bitter wind and rain.

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