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First Line: This rich and swanskin tree has grown
Last Line: Or moonlight falling in her deep sea-tinselled chamber.


THIS rich and swanskin tree has grown
From the nymphs' amber blood and bone.

What laughter falls like rain or tears
Among my boughs, what golden shears?

Come gardener, and tie
With your long beard of bass,
So like the wind's fair hair
The pillars of my tree, and win
The wind to me.

Smooth as the amber skin
Of fair Parthenope,
And that smooth nymph that changed into a tree
Each swan-soft silver skin,
Or like Parthenope's smooth voice that falls like amber,
Or moonlight falling in her deep sea-tinselled chamber.





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