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See the milk white doe is wounded	A
He will follow as it bounds	B
Through the woods His horn has sounded	A
Echoing for his men and hounds	B
But no answering bugle blew	C
He has lost his retinue	C
For the shapely deer that bounded	A
Past him when his bow he drew	C
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Not one hound or huntsman follows	D
Through the underbrush and moss	E
Goes the slot and in the hollows	D
Of the hills that he must cross	E
He has lost it He must fare	F
Over rocks where she wolves lair	F
Wood pools where the wild boar wallows	E
So he leaves his good steed there	F
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Through his mind then flashed an olden	G
Legend told him by the monks	E
Of a girl whose hair is golden	G
Haunting fountains and the trunks	E
Of the woodland who they say	E
Is a white doe all the day	E
But when woods are night enfolden	G
Turns into an evil fay	E
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Then the story oft his teacher	H
Told him of a mountain lake	I
Demons dwell in vague of feature	H
Human like but each a snake	I
She is queen of Did he hear	J
Laughter at his startled ear	J
Or a bird And now what creature	H
Is it or the wind stirs near	K
	-
Fever of the hunt This water	H
Murmuring here will cool his head	L
Through the forest fierce as slaughter	H
Slants the sunset ruby red	L
Are the drops that slip between	G
His cupped hands while on the green	G
Like the couch of some wild daughter	H
Of the forest he doth lean	G
	-
But the runnel bubbling dripping	M
Seems to bid him to be gone	G
As with crystal words and tripping	M
Steps of sparkle luring on	G
Now a spirit in the rocks	E
Calls him now a face that mocks	E
From behind some bowlder slipping	M
Laughs at him with lilied locks	E
	-
So he follows through the flowers	E
Blue and gold that blossom there	F
Thridding twilight haunted bowers	E
Where each ripple seems the bare	F
Beauty of white limbs that gleam	N
Rosy through the running stream	N
Or bright shaken hair that showers	E
Starlight in the sunset's beam	N
	-
Till far in the forest sleeping	M
Like a luminous darkness lay	E
A deep water wherein leaping	M
Fell the Fountain of the Fay	E
With a singing sighing sound	O
As of spirit things around	O
Musically laughing weeping	M
In the air and underground	O
	-
Not a ripple o'er it merried	O
Like the round moon 'neath a cloud	O
In its rocks the lake lay buried	O
And strange creatures seemed to crowd	O
Its dark depths vague limbs and eyes	E
To the surface seemed to rise	E
Spawn like and as formless ferried	O
Through the water shadow wise	E
	-
Foliage things with human faces	E
Demon dreadful pale and wild	O
As the forms the lightning traces	E
On the clouds the storm has piled	O
Seeming now to draw to land	O
Now away Then up the strand	O
Comes a woman and she places	E
On his arm a spray white hand	O
	-
Ah an untold world of sorrow	P
Were her eyes her hair a place	E
Whence the moon its gold might borrow	P
And a dream of ice her face	E
'Round her hair and throat in rims	E
Pearls of foam hung and through whims	E
Of her robe as breaks the morrow	P
Shone the rose light of her limbs	E
	-
Who could help but look with gladness	E
On such beauty though within	G
Deep within the beryl sadness	E
Of those eyes the serpent sin	G
Coil When she hath placed her cheek	Q
Chilly upon his and weak	Q
With love longing and its madness	E
Is his will grown then she'll speak	Q
	-
Dost thou love me If surrender	H
Is to love thee then I love	R
Hast no fear then In the splendor	H
Of thy gaze who knows thereof	R
Yet I fear I fear to lose	E
Thee thy love And thou dost choose	E
Aye to be my heart's defender	H
Take me I am thine to use	E
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Follow then Ah love no lowly	S
Home I give thee With fixed eyes	E
To the water's edge she slowly	S
Drew him And he did surmise	E
'Twas her lips on his until	T
O'er his face the foam closed chill	T
Whisp'ring and the lake unholy	S
Rippled rippled and was still	T

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