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Silver

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Slowly, silently, now the moon     Walks the night in her silver shoon:     This way, and that, she peers and sees     Silver fruit upon silver trees;     One by one the casements catch     Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;     Couched in his kennel, like a log,     With paws of silver sleeps the dog     From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep     Of doves in a silver-feathered sleep;     A harvest mouse goes scampering by,     With silver claws and silver eye;     And moveless fish in the water gleam     By silver reeds in a silver stream.

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