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 Two swans came flying up to him

Linked by a gold chain each to each

And with low murmuring laughing speech

Alighted on the windy grass.

They knew him: his changed body was

Tall, proud and ruddy, and light wings

Were hovering over the harp strings

That Etain, Midhir's wife, had wove

In the hid place, being crazed by love.

What shall I call them? fish that swim

Scale rubbing scale where light is dim

By a broad water-lily leaf;

Or mice in the one wheaten sheaf

Forgotten at the threshing place;

Or birds lost in the one clear space

Of morning light in a dim sky;

Or it may be, the eyelids of one eye

Or the door pillars of one house,

Or two sweet blossoming apple boughs

That have one shadow on the ground;

Or the two strings that made one sound

Where that wise harper's finger ran;

For this young girl and this young man

Have happiness without an end

Because they have made so good a friend.

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