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THE WATER-SPRITE by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG

Poet Analysis

First Line: I SEE HER AS I WALK THE SHORE
Last Line: AND AN AGATE STONE.

I see her as I walk the shore,
Luminous, opaque.
She yearns for young men's limbs to wind,
For young men's hearts to break;
And she has weeds to wreathe their brows
Under the clear lake.

Some midnight when the moon is full
And I can hear her moan,
I shall walk slowly down to her,
Under the lake, alone,
Bearing a cluster of land-flowers
And an agate stone.



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