Poems (Hooper)/The Water-Lily

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THE WATER-LILY.
Die stille Wasserrose.
The beauteous water-lily Floats on the azure stream;Around her snow-white calyx Glisten the leaves and gleam.
The moon pours down from heaven A flood of golden light;Pours down its fairest moonbeams Into her bosom white.
Circling around the flower A fair white swan doth go;He looks upon the lily, And singeth soft and low.
So soft and sweet he singeth, The while he glides along,O lily, snow-white lily, Canst understand his song?Geibel.
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