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GREEN, watery jets of light let through
The rippling foliage drenched with dew;
And golden glimmers, warm and dim,
That in the vistaed distance swim;
Where, ’round the wood-spring’s oozy urn,
The limp, loose fronds of forest fern
Trail like the tresses, green and wet,
A wood-nymph binds with violet.
O’er rocks that bulge and roots that knot
The emerald-amber mosses clot;
From matted walls of brier and brush
The eider nods its plumes of plush;
And, Argus-eyed with many a bloom,
The wild-rose breathes its wild perfume;
May-apples, ripening yellow, lean
With oblong fruit, a lemon-green,
Near Indian-turnips, long of stem,
That bear an acorn-oval gem,
As if some woodland Bacchus there,-
While braiding locks of hyacinth hair
With ivy-tod,-had idly tost
His thyrsus down and so had lost:
And blood-root, that from scarlet wombs
Puts forth, in spring, its milk-white blooms,
That then like starry footsteps shine
Of April under beech and pine;
At which the gnarled eyes of trees
Stare, big as Fauns’ at Dryades,
That bend above a fountain’s spar
As white and naked as a star.
The stagnant stream flows sleepily
Thick with its lily-pads; the bee,-
All honey-drunk, a Bassarid,-
Booms past the mottled toad, that, hid
In calamus-plants and blue-eyed grass,
Beside the water’s pooling glass,
Silenus-like, eyes stolidly
The M
(Madison Julius Cawein)
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