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 Marvellously gentle, feater far than children,
 * In gesture, mien and speech,

Hastening onward in translucent shafts of sunshine, And gossiping each with each.

Straw-light their locks, on neck and shoulder falling,
 * Faint of almond the silks they wore,

Spun not of worm, but as if inwoven of moonbeams
 * And foam on rock-bound shore;

Like lank-legged grasshoppers in June-tide meadows,
 * Amalillios of the day.

Hungrily gazed upon by me—a stranger,
 * In unknown regions astray.

Yet, happy beyond words, I marked their sunlit faces,
 * Stealing soft enchantment from their eyes,

Tears in my own confusing their small image,
 * Harkening their bead-like cries.