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Sleeping Beauty

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The scent of bramble fills the air,         Amid her folded sheets she lies,      The gold of evening in her hair,         The blue of morn shut in her eyes.      How many a changing moon hath lit         The unchanging roses of her face!      Her mirror ever broods on it         In silver stillness of the days.      Oft flits the moth on filmy wings         Into his solitary lair;      Shrill evensong the cricket sings         From some still shadow in her hair.      In heat, in snow, in wind, in flood,         She sleeps in lovely loneliness,      Half-folded like an April bud         On winter-haunted trees.

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