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The Water-Maid.

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There she rose as white as death,     Stars above and stars beneath;     Where the ripples brake in splendor     To a million, million starlets     Twinkling on lake-lilies tender,     Rocking to the ripple barlets.     She, brow-belted with white lilies,     Rose and oared a shining shoulder     To a downward-purpling boulder:     With slim fingers soft and milky,     Haled her from the spray-sprent lilies     To a ledge, and sitting silky     Sang unto the list'ning lilies,     Sang and sang beneath the heaven,     Belted, wreathed with lilies seven;     Falsely sang a wild, wild ditty         To a wool-white moon;     Till a child both frail and pretty     Found her singing on the boulder, -     Dark locks on a milky shoulder, -         'Neath the wool-white moon.     And the creature singing there     Strangled him in her long hair.

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