<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342196" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Water-Witch</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The little creek went winding down<br>‘Twixt whispering reeds and small blue flowers,<br>Singing a pleasant summer song<br>Of holidays and playtime hours.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We reached it at the noonday hours,<br>Coming from the scrub-aisles dime and cool,<br>Laden with ferns and lilies white,<br>And rested by it’s deepest pool.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And while we watched with drowsy eyes<br>The shimmering sunlight on the plain,<br>The water-witch within the stream<br>Arose and stood between us twain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She looked on me with scornful eye<br>And mocking smile that held no mirth;<br>She knew my simple soul was kin<br>To the brown, kindly, homely earth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But she kissed Maye upon the brow,<br>As though to steal her soul away;<br>She kissed here on her Irish eyes,<br>Her faery eyes, now green, now grey.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And now she walks alone our girl,<br>Aloof from all life’s joys and pains;<br>The witch’s kiss is on her brow,<br>The dancing water in her veins.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah! For the hearts that cherish her,<br>That sigh and pine with secret pain<br>For her cool lips and smiling eyes;<br>For Maye will never love again—</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shallow and cold as water’s self!<br>And my warm heart that loves her well<br>Can only breathe a prayer to Heaven<br>To break the water witch’s spell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alice+Guerin+Crist">Alice Guerin Crist</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342196" data-title="The Water-Witch de Alice Guerin Crist" data-description="The little creek went winding down ‘Twixt whispering reeds and small blue flowers, Singing a pleasant summer song Of holidays and playtime hours. We reached it at the noonday hours, Coming from the scrub-aisles dime and cool, Laden with ferns a..."></div> </div> </div>

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