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Before those cruel twins whom at one birth	A
Incestuous Change bore to her father Time	B
Error and Truth had hunted from the earth	A
All those bright natures which adorned its prime	B
And left us nothing to believe in worth	A
The pains of putting into learn d rhyme	B
A Lady Witch there lived on Atlas mountain	C
Within a cavern by a secret fountain	C
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Her mother was one of the Atlantides	D
The all beholding Sun had ne'er beholden	C
In his wide voyage o'er continents and seas	D
So fair a creature as she lay enfolden	C
In the warm shadow of her loveliness	D
He kissed her with his beams and made all golden	C
The chamber of gray rock in which she lay	E
She in that dream of joy dissolved away	E
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'Tis said she first was changed into a vapor	F
And then into a cloud such clouds as flit	G
Like splendor winged moths about a taper	F
Round the red west when the Sun dies in it	G
And then into a meteor such as caper	F
On hill tops when the Moon is in a fit	G
Then into one of those mysterious stars	D
Which hide themselves between the Earth and Mars	D
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Ten times the Mother of the Months had ben	C
Her bow beside the folding star and bidden	C
With that bright sign the billows to indent	H
The sea deserted sand like children chidden	C
At her command they ever came and went	H
Since in that cave a dewy splendor hidden	C
Took shape and motion With the living form	I
Of this embodied Power the cave grew warm	I
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A lovely Lady garmented in light	J
From her own beauty deep her eyes as are	K
Two openings of unfathomable night	J
Seen through a temple's cloven roof her hair	L
Dark the dim brain whirls dizzy with delight	J
Picturing her form Her soft smiles shone afar	K
And her low voice was heard like love and drew	M
All living things towards this wonder new	M
	-
And first the spotted cameleopard came	N
And then the wise and fearless elephant	O
Then the sly serpent in the golden flame	N
Of his own volumes intervolved All gaunt	P
And sanguine beasts her gentle looks made tame	N
They drank before her at her sacred fount	P
And every beast of beating heart grew bold	P
Such gentleness and power even to behold	P
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The brinded lioness led forth her young	Q
That she might teach them how they should forego	R
Their inborn thirst of death the pard unstrung	R
His sinews at her feet and sought to know	R
With looks whose motions spoke without a tongue	R
How he might be as gentle as the doe	R
The magic circle of her voice and eyes	D
All savage natures did imparadise	D
	-
And old Silenus shaking a green stick	R
Of lilies and the Wood gods in a crew	M
Came blithe as in the olive copses thick	R
Cicade are drunk with the noonday dew	M
And Dryope and Faunus followed quick	R
Teazing the God to sing them something new	M
Till in this cave they found the Lady lone	C
Sitting upon a seat of emerald stone	C
	-
And universal Pan 'tis said was there	L
And though none saw him through the adamant	P
Of the deep mountains through the trackless air	L
And through those living spirits like a want	P
He passed out of his everlasting lair	L
Where the quick heart of the great world doth pant	P
And felt that wondrous Lady all alone	C
And she felt him upon her emerald throne	C
	-
And every Nymph of stream and spreading tree	S
And every Shepherdess of Ocean's flocks	D
Who drives her white waves over the green sea	S
And Ocean with the brine on his grey locks	D
And quaint Priapus with his company	S
All came much wondering how the enwombed rocks	D
Could have brought forth so beautiful a birth	A
Her love subdued their wonder and their mirth	A
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The herdsmen and the mountain maidens came	N
And the rude kings of pastoral Garamant	P
Their spirits shook within them as a flame	N
Stirred by the air under a cavern gaunt	P
Pygmies and Polyphemes by many a name	N
Centaurs and Satyrs and such shapes as haunt	P
Wet clefts and lumps neither alive nor dead	P
Dog headed bosom eyed and bird footed	P
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For she was beautiful Her beauty made	P
The bright world dim and everything beside	P
Seemed like the fleeting image of a shade	P
No thought of living spirit could abide	P
Which to her looks had ever been betrayed	P
On any object in the world so wide	P
On any hope within the circling skies	D
But on her form and in her inmost eyes	D
	-
Which when the Lady knew she took her spindle	T
And twined three threads of fleecy mist and three	S
Long lines of light such as the dawn may kindle	T
The clouds and waves and mountains with and she	S
As many starbeams ere their lamps could dwindle	T
In the belated moon wound skilfully	T
And with these threads a subtle veil she wove	U
A shadow for the splendour of her love	V
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The deep recesses of her odorous dwelling	R
Were stored with magic treasures sounds of air	L
Which had the power all spirits of compelling	R
Folded in cells of crystal silence there	L
Such as we hear in youth and think the feeling	R
will never die yet ere we are aware	L
The feeling and the sound are fled and gone	C
And the regret they leave remains alone	C
	-
And there lay Visions swift and sweet and quaint	P
Each in its thin sheath like a chrysalis	D
Some eager to burst forth some weak and faint	P
With the soft burden of intensest bliss	D
It is their work to bear to many a saint	P
Whose heart adores the shrine which holiest is	D
Even Love's and others white green grey and black	R
And of all shapes and each was at her beck	R
	-
And odours in a kind of aviary	S
Of ever blooming Eden trees she kept	P
Clipped in a floating net a love sick Fairy	S
Had woven from dew beams while the moon yet slept	P
As bats at the wired window of a dairy	S
They beat their vans and each was an adept	P
When loosed and missioned making wings of winds	D
To stir sweet thoughts or sad in destined minds	D
	-
And liquors clear and sweet whose healthful might	P
Could medicine the sick soul to happy sleep	W
And change eternal death into a night	P
Of glorious dreams or if eyes needs must weep	W
Could make their tears all wonder and delight	P
She in her crystal phials did closely keep	W
If men could drink of those clear phials 'tis said	P
The living were not envied of the dead	P
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Her cave was stored with scrolls of strange device	D
The works of some Saturnian Archimage	X
Which taught the expiations at whose price	D
Men from the Gods might win that happy age	X
Too lightly lost redeeming native vice	D
And which might quench the earth consuming rage	X
Of gold and blood till men should live and move	Y
Harmonious as the sacred stars above	V
	-
And how all things that seem untameable	T
Not to be checked and not to be confined	P
Obey the spells of Wisdom's wizard skill	T
Time earth and fire the ocean and the wind	P
And all their shapes and man's imperial will	T
And other scrolls whose writings did unbind	P
The inmost lore of love let the profane	C
Tremble to ask what secrets they contain	C
	-
And wondrous works of substances unknown	C
To which the enchantment of her Father's power	F
Had changed those ragged blocks of savage stone	C
Were heaped in the recesses of her bower	F
Carved lamps and chalices and phials which shone	C
In their own golden beams each like a flower	F
Out of whose depth a firefly shakes his light	P
Under a cypress in a starless night	P
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At first she lived alone in this wild home	Z
And her own thoughts were each a minister	F
Clothing themselves or with the ocean foam	Z
Or with the wind or with the speed of fire	F
To work whatever purposes might come	A2
Into her mind such power her mighty Sire	F
Had girt them with whether to fly or run	C
Through all the regions which he shines upon	C
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The Ocean nymphs and Hamadryades	D
Oreads and Naiads with long weedy locks	D
Offered to do her bidding through the seas	D
Unde	P

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