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MOTHER - WATER, THE GREAT SEA WEPT |
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Mother - Water, she arose |
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She disappeared in the moon |
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Which had lifted her |
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Which had given her birth |
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Masquerading solemn beauty |
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As in a ray of the moon's light |
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Doth her pale skin gleam |
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As an orchid of the deepest seas |
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(So speak he weeping, and his lady mother heard him |
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As she sate in the sea-depths bside her aged sire. |
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Woth speed arose she from the grey sea, like a mist, |
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And sat her before the face of her weeping sun, and |
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Stroked him with her hand, and spoke and called on |
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His name "My child, why weepest thou? What sorrow |
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Hath entered into thy heart? Speak it forth, hide it |
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Not in thy mind, that both may know it.") |