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A WELL.
What mystery pervades a well!
The water lives so far, / Like neighbor from another world / Residing in a jar.
The grass does not appear afraid; / I often wonder he / Can stand so close and look so bold / At what is dread to me.
Related somehow they may be, -- / The sedge stands next the sea, / Where he is floorless, yet of fear / No evidence gives he.
But nature is a stranger yet; / The ones that cite her most / Have never passed her haunted house, / Nor simplified her ghost.
To pity those that know her not / Is helped by the regret / That those who know her, know her less / The nearer her they get.