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On the calm black water

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where the stars are sleeping

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White Ophelia floats

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like a great lily;

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Floats very slowly,

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lying in her long veils...

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- In the far-off woods

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you can hear them sound the mort.[br]

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For more than a thousand years

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sad Ophelia

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Has passed, a white phantom,

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down the long black river.

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For more than a thousand years

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her sweet madness

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Has murmured its ballad

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to the evening breeze.[br]

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The wind kisses her breasts

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and unfolds in a wreath

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Her great veils

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rising and falling with the waters;

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The shivering willows

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weep on her shoulder,

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The rushes lean over her wide,

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dreaming brow.[br]

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The ruffled water-lilies

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are sighing around her;

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At times she rouses,

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in a slumbering alder,[br]

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Some nest from which escapes

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a small rustle of wings;

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- A mysterious anthem

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falls from the golden stars.

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O pale Ophelia!

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beautiful as snow!

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Yes child, you died,

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carried off by a river!
[br]

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- It was the winds descending from

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the great mountains of Norway

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That spoke to you in low voices

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of better freedom.

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It was a breath of wind, that,

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twisting your great hair,

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Brought strange rumors

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to your dreaming mind;

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It was your heart listening

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to the song of Nature

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In the groans of the tree

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and the sighs of the nights;[br]

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It was the voice of mad seas,

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the great roar,

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That shattered your child's heart,

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too human and too soft;

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It was a handsome pale knight,

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a poor madman

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Who one April morning

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sate mute at your knees![br]

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Heaven! Love! Freedom! [br]

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What a dream, oh poor crazed Girl!

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You melted to him

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as snow does to a fire;

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Your great visions

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strangled your words

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- And fearful Infinity

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terrified your blue eye!

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- And the poet says

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that by starlight

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You come seeking, in the night,

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the flowers that you picked

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And that he has seen on the water,

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lying in her long veils[br]

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White Ophelia floating, like a great

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lily.