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the birth of the callitriche.
"And the tremulous play
Of purest pearls,
With a pale soft ray
Shall gem thy curls.
Of purest pearls,
With a pale soft ray
Shall gem thy curls.
"Oh, the wave is fair
And mild and blue,
As the azure air
Thou wanderest through!
And mild and blue,
As the azure air
Thou wanderest through!
"Then, loveliest far
Of Atlas' daughters,
Bless with thy star
Our limpid waters!"
Of Atlas' daughters,
Bless with thy star
Our limpid waters!"
Wild and sweet was the lay of love,
Upborne on the balmy air,
And the Pleiad stole from her bower above,
To gaze in the waters fair.
Upborne on the balmy air,
And the Pleiad stole from her bower above,
To gaze in the waters fair.
Ah! fatal gaze! for so fondly smiled
Those eyes from the stream below,
She plunged, and the lamp of her heavenly life
Went out in its vase of snow.
Those eyes from the stream below,
She plunged, and the lamp of her heavenly life
Went out in its vase of snow.
