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OVER THE WATERS by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE

Poet Analysis

First Line: OVER THE CRYSTAL WATERS
Last Line: COULD MIRROR GRACE LIKE HERS?
Subject(s): GRACE;
I.

OVER the crystal waters
She leans in careless grace,
Smiling to view within them
Her own fair happy face.

II.

The waves that glass her beauty
No tiniest ripple stirs:
What human heart thus coldly
Could mirror grace like hers?



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