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THE LOVER AND THE SYRINGA BUSH by HERMAN MELVILLE

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First Line: LIKE A LIT-UP CHRISTMAS TREE
Last Line: LOVE'S TRYST TO KEEP, WITH TRUANT EVE.

Like a lit-up Christmas Tree,
Like a grotto pranked with spars,
Like white corals in green sea,
Like night's sky of crowded stars --
To me like these you show, Syringa
Such heightening power has love, believe,
While here by Eden's gate I linger
Love's tryst to keep, with truant Eve.



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