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Down lines of pine and eglantine
Serpentine in my falling
I touch the woodbines and the vines
Mellifluously calling.
2
Calling on links of ripply winks
To ocean anemone
On silver kinks that pass through chinks
Of mountain chalcedony.
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On stones of silver tones I ring
Make music of the mountain
Intonating notations fine
To make his sonant fountains.
4.
I linger as a singer
Gingerly in my saree
Of silver threads and leap adown
Singing my charivari.
5.
I wobble on my ripples
In which the sunbeams dabble
I double as I babble on
And on the pebbles babble.
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I rally all my ripples
And make a sparkling sally
And dally down to daffodils
Into a dappled valley.
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My silver bells a-jingle
Mingle upon the shingles
I jangle as I wrangle on
Illuming little ingles.
8.
I titter as I glitter
Beneath the blossom's twitter
I fritter fairy jewels
Borne on my silver litter.
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I murmur, murmur merrily
A marine mermaid funning
Remembering my marine home
By airy rumours running.
10
By pleasant haunts of pheasants
And rainbow wings aflutter;
By peewit-haunted woodlands
I spurt, I race, I sputter.
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I wander, wander as I run
Meandering in meshes
I squander all my music
Philandering my cresses.
12
I wield my water chisel
Rounding the angled boulder;
And carve my fretted bank curves
Singing a fairy moulder.
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On earth's incline I wind and twine
Upon her pull I scurry;
To find her random wrinkles
Romances in my hurry.
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Liquidly skidding scud I down
Love's path divinely fretted
The sunshine on the tears of life
In lovely lays all netted.
15
I purl and whirl and twirl my kinks
A girl in woodlands merry
I swirl, my silver scarves unfurl,
Curl fairy pearls to ferry.
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By kindling briar blooms I flow
Spindling on brindled gravel
I scintillate on diamonds
As down the thorps I travel.
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I murmur, murmur, murmur on,
Remembering my ocean;
For life is flow, the reaching slow,
But quick is quick emotion.
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