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I had an errand there: gathering water-lilies, |
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green leaves and lilies white to please my pretty lady, |
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the last ere the year's end to keep them from the winter, |
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to flower by her pretty feet tilt the snows are melted. |
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Each year at summer's end I go to find them for her, |
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in a wide pool, deep and clear, far down Withywindle; |
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there they open first in spring and there they linger latest. |
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By that pool long ago I found the River-daughter, |
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fair young Goldberry sitting in the rushes. |
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Sweet was her singing then, and her heart was beating! |
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And that proved well for you . for now I shall no longer |
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go down deep again along the forest-water, |
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not while the year is old. Nor shall I be passing |
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Old Man Willow's house this side of spring-time, |
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not till the merry spring, when the River-daughter |
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dances down the withy-path to bathe in the water. |
