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The Water Nymphs

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They hide in the brook when I seek to draw nearer,     Laughing amain when I feign to depart;     Often I hear them, now faint and now clearer     Innocent bold or so sweetly discreet.     Are they Nymphs of the Stream at their playing     Or but the brook I mistook for a voice?     Little care I; for, despite harsh Times flaying,     Brook voice or Nymph voice still makes me rejoice.

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"They hide in the brook when I seek to draw nearer,..."

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