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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=413333" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Lily Bed</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">His cedar paddle, scented, red, <br>He thrust down through the lily bed; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cloaked in a golden pause he lay, <br>Locked in the arms of the placid bay. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Trembled alone his bark canoe <br>As shocks of bursting lilies flew </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thro' the still crystal of the tide, <br>And smote the frail boat's birchen side; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or, when beside the sedges thin <br>Rose the sharp silver of a fin; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or when, a wizard swift and cold, <br>A dragon-fly beat on in gold </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And jewels all the widening rings <br>Of waters singing to his wings; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or, like a winged and burning soul, <br>Dropped from the gloom an oriole </div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the cool wave, as to the balm <br>Of the Great Spirit's open palm </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The freed soul flies. And silence clung <br>To the still hours, as tendrilts hung, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In darkness carven, from the trees, <br>Sedge-buried to their burly knees. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stillness sat in his lodge of leaves; <br>Clung golden shadows to its eaves, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And on its cone-speced floor, like maize, <br>Red-ripe, fell sheaves of knotted rays. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The wood, a proud and crested brave; <br>Bead-bright, a maiden, stood the wave. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he had spoke his soul of love <br>With voice of eagle and of dove. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of loud, strong pines his tongue was made; <br>His lips, soft blossoms in the shade, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">That kissed her silver lips--hers cool <br>As lilies on his inmost pool-- </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Till now he stood, in triumph's rest, <br>His image painted in her breast. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">One isle 'tween blue and blue did melt,-- <br>A bead of wampum from the belt </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of Manitou--a purple rise <br>On the far shore heaved to the skies. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">His cedar paddle, scented, red, <br>He drew up from the lily bed; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">All lily-locked, all lily-locked, <br>His light bark in the blossoms rocked. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their cool lips round the sharp prow sang, <br>Their soft clasp to the frail sides sprang, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">With breast and lip they wove a bar. <br>Stole from her lodge the Evening Star; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">With golden hand she grasped the mane <br>Of a red cloud on her azure plain. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It by the peaked, red sunset flew; <br>Cool winds from its bright nostrils blew. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They swayed the high, dark trees,and low <br>Swept the locked lilies to and fro. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">With cedar paddle, scented, red, <br>He pushed out from the lily bed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Isabella+Valancy+Crawford">Isabella Valancy Crawford</a><div class=q>
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He thrust down through the lily bed; 

Cloaked in a golden pause he lay, 
Locked in the arms of the placid bay. 

Trembled alone his bark canoe 
As shocks of bursting lilies flew 

Thro' the still crystal of the ti..."></div>
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