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Transformation

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It is the time when, by the forest falls,     The touch-me-nots hang fairy folly-caps;     When ferns and flowers fill the lichened laps     Of rocks with colour, rich as orient shawls:     And in my heart I hear a voice that calls     Me woodward, where the hamadryad wraps     Her limbs in bark, and, bubbling in the saps,     Sings the sweet Greek of Pan's old madrigals:     There is a gleam that lures me up the stream     A Naiad swimming with wet limbs of light?     Perfume that leads me on from dream to dream     An Oread's footprints fragrant with her flight?     And, lo! meseems I am a Faun again,     Part of the myths that I pursue in vain.

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