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MYSTERIES :
Where the brook trickles clear to the eye
Below dew-spangled frondlets of willow
We will wander to find bye-and-bye
The sward of our delicate pillow,
, Eveline
Where the mosses deliciously lie
For the sward of our delicate pillow.
For a bride fairer far than the flower
Is the couch spread by fingers of even,
The blossom of apples for bower,
Its roof-tree the sapphires of heaven,
Eveline !
For the bride of the mystical hour,
Its roof-tree the sapphires of heaven !
With songsters the heavy sweet air
Is trembling and sighing and shimmering,
With meteors magically fair
The sky is ecstatically glimmering,
Eveline !
With splendour and subtlety rare
The sky is ecstatically glimmering.
Sweet bride to fond arms witha sigh |
Strong arms to soft bosom are twining,
The winds breathe more musically by,
The moon has a rosier lining,
Eveline!
The stars grow more dim in the sky,
The moon has a rosier lining.