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Heart's Fountain. (Moods Of Love.)

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Her moods are like the fountain's, changing ever,         That spouts aloft a sudden, watery dome,         Only to fall again in shattering foam,     Just where the wedded jets themselves dissever,     And palpitating downward, downward quiver,         Unfolded like a swift ethereal flower,         That sheds white petals in a blinding shower,     And straightway soars anew with blithe endeavor.     The sun may kindle it with healthful fire;         Upon it falls the cloud-gray's leaden load;     At night the stars shall haunt the whirling spire:         Yet these have but a transient garb bestowed.     So her glad life, whate'er the hours impart,     Plays still 'twixt heaven's cope and her own clear heart.

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