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Divine Adventure

At times a youth (so whispered legend tells),

Like Hylas, stoops to drink

By forest-hidden brink,

And fair hands draw him down to darkened wells;

Fair hands that hold him fast

With laughter at the last

Have power to draw him lightly down to be

In elfin chambers under the gray sea.

And I, O men of Earth, I too,

When dawn was at the dew,

Was drawn as Hylas downward and beheld

Spirits of youth and eld— 89