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Fragment - Moonrise At Sea.

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With lips that were hoarse with a fury      Of foam and of winds that are strewn,     Of storm and of turbulent hurry,      The ocean roared, heralding soon     A birth of miraculous glory,      Of madness, affection - the moon.     And soon from her waist with a slipping      And shudder and clinging of light,     With a loos'ning and pushing and ripping      Of the raven-laced bodice of Night,     With a silence of feet and a dripping      The goddess came, virginal white.     And the air was alive with the twinkle      And tumult of silver-shod feet,     The hurling of stars, and the sprinkle      Of loose, lawny limbs and a sweet     Murmur and whisper and tinkle      Of beam-weaponed moon spirits fleet.

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