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Musing on the fate of Daphne	A
Many feelings urged my breast	B
For the God so keen desiring	C
And the Nymph so deep distrest	B
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Never flashed thro' sylvan valley	A
Visions so divinely fair	D
He with early ardour glowing	C
She with rosy anguish rare	D
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Only still more sweet and lovely	A
For those terrors on her brows	E
Those swift glances wild and brilliant	B
Those delicious panting vows	E
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Timidly the timid shoulders	F
Shrinking from the fervid hand	B
Dark the tide of hair back flowing	C
From the blue veined temples bland	B
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Lovely too divine Apollo	G
In the speed of his pursuit	B
With his eye an azure lustre	H
And his voice a summer lute	B
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Looking like some burnished eagle	I
Hovering o'er a fluttered bird	B
Not unseen of silver Naiad	B
And of wistful Dryad heard	B
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Many a morn the naked beauty	B
Saw her bright reflection drown	J
In the flowing smooth faced river	H
While the god came sheening down	J
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Down from Pindus bright Peneus	F
Tells its muse melodious source	F
Sacred is its fountained birthplace	F
And the Orient floods its course	F
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Many a morn the sunny darling	C
Saw the rising chariot rays	F
From the winding river reaches	F
Mellowing in amber haze	F
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Thro' the flaming mountain gorges	F
Lo the River leaps the plain	K
Like a wild god stridden courser	H
Tossing high its foamy mane	K
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Then he swims thro' laurelled sunlight	B
Full of all sensations sweet	B
Misty with his morning incense	F
To the mirrored maiden's feet	B
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Wet and bright the dinting pebbles	F
Shine where oft she paused and stood	B
All her dreamy warmth revolving	C
While the chilly waters wooed	B
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Like to rosy born Aurora	L
Glowing freshly into view	M
When her doubtful foot she ventures	F
On the first cold morning blue	M
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White as that Thessalian lily	B
Fairest Tempe's fairest flower	H
Lo the tall Peneian virgin	N
Stands beneath her bathing bower	H
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There the laurell'd wreaths o'erarching	C
Crown'd the dainty shuddering maid	B
There the dark prophetic laurel	I
Kiss'd her with its sister shade	B
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There the young green glistening leaflets	F
Hush'd with love their breezy peal	O
There the little opening flowerets	F
Blush'd beneath her vermeil heel	O
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There among the conscious arbours	F
Sounds of soft tumultuous wail	P
Mysteries of love melodious	F
Came upon the lyric gale	P
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Breathings of a deep enchantment	B
Effluence of immortal grace	F
Flitted round her faltering footstep	Q
Spread a balm about her face	F
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Witless of the enamour'd presence	F
Like a dreamy lotus bud	B
From its drowsy stem down drooping	C
Gazed she in the glowing flood	B
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Softly sweet with fluttering presage	R
Felt she that ethereal sense	F
Drinking charms of love delirious	F
Reaping bliss of love intense	F
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All the air was thrill'd with sunrise	F
Birds made music of her name	S
And the god impregnate water	H
Claspt her image ere she came	S
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Richer for that glance unconscious	F
Dearer for that soft dismay	T
And the sudden self possession	U
And the smile as bright as day	T
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Plunging 'mid her scattered tresses	F
With her blue invoking eyes	F
See her like a star descending	C
Like a rosebud see her rise	F
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Like a rosebud in the morning	C
Dashing off its jewell'd dews	F
Ere unfolding all its fragrance	F
It is gathered by the muse	F
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Beauteous in the foamy laughter	H
Bubbling round her shrinking waist	B
Lo from locks and lips and eyelids	F
Rain the glittering pearl drops chaste	B
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And about the maiden rapture	H
Still the ruddy ripples play'd	B
Ebbing round in startled circlets	F
When her arms began to wade	B
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Flowing in like tides attracted	B
To the glowing crescent shine	V
Clasping her ambrosial whiteness	F
Like an Autumn tinted vine	V
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Sinking low with love's emotion	U
Levying with look and tone	W
All love's rosy arts to mimic	C
Cytherea's magic zone	W
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Trembling up with adoration	U
To the crimson daisy tip	X
Budding from the snowy bosom	Y
Fainter than the rose red lip	X
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Rising in a storm of wavelets	F
That for shelter feigning fright	B
Prest to those twin heaving havens	F
Harbour'd there beneath her light	B
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Gleaming in a whirl of eddies	F
Round her lucid throat and neck	C
Eddying in a gleam of dimples	F
Up against her bloomy cheek	C
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Bribing all the breezy water	H
With rich warmth the nymph to keep	Z
In a self imprison'd plaisance	F
Tempting her from deep to deep	Z
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Till at last delirious passion	U
Thrill'd the god to wild excess	F
And the fervour of a moment	B
Made divinity confess	F
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And he stood in all his glory	B
But so radiant being near	A2
That her eyes were frozen on him	B2
In a fascinated fear	A2
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All with orient splendour shining	C
All with roseate birth aglow	G
Gleam'd the golden god before her	H
With his golden crescent bow	C2
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Soon the dazzled light subsided	B
And he seem'd a beauteous youth	D2
Form'd to gain the maiden's murmurs	F
And to pledge the vows of truth	D2
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Ah that thus he had continued	B
O that such for her had been	N
Graceful with all godlike beauty	B
But so humanly serene	E2
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Cheeks and mouth and mellow ringlets	F
Bounteous as the mid day beam	F2
Pleading looks and wistful tremour	H
Tender as a maiden's dream	F2
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Palms that like a bird's throbb'd bosom	Y
Palpitate with eagerness	F
Lips the bridals of the roses	F
Dewy sweet from the caress	F
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Lips and limbs and eyes and ringlets	F
Swaying praying to one prayer	H
Like a lyre swept by a spirit	B
In the still enraptur'd air	H
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Like a lyre in some far valley	B
Uttering ravishments divine	V
All its strings to viewless fingers	F
Yearning modulations fine	V
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Yearning with melodious fervour	H
Like a beauteous maiden flower	H
When the young beloved three paces	F
Hovers from the bridal bower	H
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Throbbing thro' the dawning stillness	F
As a heart within a breast	B
When the young beloved is stepping	C
Radiant to the nuptial nest	B
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O for Daphne gentle Daphne	B
Ever warmer by degrees	F
Whispers full of hopes and visions	F
Throng her ears like honey bees	F
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Never yet was lonely blossom	Y
Woo'd with such delicious voice	F
Never since hath mortal maiden	U
Dwelt on such celestial choice	F
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Love suffused she quivers falters	F
Falters sighs but never speaks	F
All her rosy blood up gushing	C
Overflows her ripe young cheeks	F
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Blushing sweet with virgin blushes	F
All her loveliness a flame	S
Stands she in the orient waters	F
Stricken o'er with speechless shame	S
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Ah but lovelier ever lovelier	H
As more deep the colour glows	F
And the honey laden lily	B
Changes to the fragrant rose	F
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While the god with meek embraces	F
Whispering all his sacred charms	F
Softly folds her gently holds her	H
In his white encircling arms	F
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But O Dian veil not wholly	B
Thy pale crescent from the morn	G2
Vanish not O virgin goddess	F
With that look of pallid scorn	G2
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Still thy pure protecting influence	F
Shed from those fair watchful eyes	F
Lo her angry orb has vanished	B
And the bright sun thrones the skies	F
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Voicelessly the forest Virgin	N
Vanished but one look she gave	H2
Keen as Niobean arrow	H
Thro' the maiden's heart it drave	H2
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Thus toward that throning bosom	Y
Where all earth is warmed each spot	B
Nourished with autumnal blessings	F
Icy chill was Daphne caught	B
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Icy chill but swift revulsion	U
All her gentler self renewed	B
Even as icy Winter quickens	F
With bud opening warmth imbued	B
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Even as a torpid brooklet	B
That to the night gleaming moon	I2
Flashed in turn the frozen glances	F
Melts upon the breast of noon	I2
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But no more O never never	H
Turns she to that bosom bright	B
Swiftly all her senses counsel	I
All her nerves are strung to flight	B
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O'er the brows of radiant Pindus	F
Rolls a shadow dark and cold	B
And a sound of lamentation	I2
Issues from its mournful fold	B
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Voice of the far sighted Muses	F
Cry of keen foreboding song	C
Every cleft of startled Tempe	B
Tingles with it sharp and long	C
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Over bourn and bosk and dingle	I
Over rivers over rills	F
Runs the sad subservient Echo	H
Toward the dim blue distant hills	F
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And another and another	H
'Tis a cry more wild than all	J2
And the hills with muffled voices	F
Answer 'Daphne ' to the call	J2
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And anot	B