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IN TUSCANY: A SEA-SPELL by CORA RANDALL FABBRI

First Line: THERE IS A SIREN IN THE SEA
Last Line: THAT SHE HAS DROWNED ME IN MY TEARS.
THERE is a Siren in the sea,
And all day long she sings to me,
Until my soul is no more free.

I listen by the waves all day,
Although, if free, I should not stay
Beside a sea so cold and gray,

But choose a spot all sun and light,
With songs, and roses red and white,
And stars that make men love the night.

But all day long she sings to me
Of love that is a memory
More bitter than the bitter sea.

She sings to me of other years,
Nor will she cease until she hears
That she has drowned me in my tears.



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