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A LEGEND, by                    
First Line: In an ivory castled tower
Last Line: Fall at her feet.
Subject(s): Legends


In an ivory castled tower
Marguerite
Runs up and down her stairs
On tiny feet.

They shine like glittering stars
On the milky way,
And clink like far-away bells
On a midsummer day.

Marguerite sighs as she turns
Up the winding stair;
Her rustling, white-satin skirt
Stirs in the air.

She looks out on the white, drifting clouds
As they hasten by,
And her breath on the pane paints a scene
Of the frosty sky.

The hosts of twinkling stars
Are at her command;
The fragile curve of the moon
She could crush in her hand.

But in her gleaming white tower
Marguerite
Fingers a daisy whose petals
Fall at her feet.





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