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A Pool Among The Rocks

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I know a pool, whose crystalline repose     Sleeps under walls of granite, whence the pine     Leans looking at its image, line for line     Repeated with the sumach and wild-rose     That redden on the rocks; where, at day's close,     The sunset dreams, and lights incarnadine     Dark waters and the place seems brimmed with wine,     A giant cup that splendour overflows.     Night, in her livery of stars and moon,     Stoops to its mirror, gazing steadily;     And, saddened by her beauty, drops one tear,     A falling star; while round it sighs the rune     Of winds, conspirators that sweep from sea,     Whispering of things that fill the heart with fear.

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