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ANDROMEDA.
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Coral and sea-fan and tangle, the blooms and the palms of the ocean.  Onward they came in their joy, more white than the foam which they scattered, 140Laughing and singing, and tossing and twining, while eager, the TritonsBlinded with kisses their eyes, unreproved, and above them in worshipHovered the terns, and the seagulls swept past them on silvery pinionsEchoing softly their laughter; around them the wantoning dolphinsSighed as they plunged, full of love; and the great seahorses which bore themCurved up their crests in their pride to the delicate arms of the maidens,Pawing the spray into gems, till a fiery rainfall, unharming,Sparkled and gleamed on the limbs of the nymphs, and the coils of the mermen.
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