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Lying listless in the mosses / Underneath a tree that tosses / Flakes of sunshine, and embosses / Its green shadow with the snow -- / Drowsy-eyed, I sink in slumber / Born of fancies without number -- / Tangled fancies that encumber / Me with dreams of long ago.
Ripples of the river singing; / And the water-lilies swinging / Bells of Parian, and ringing / Peals of perfume faint and fine, / While old forms and fairy faces / Leap from out their hiding-places / In the past, with glad embraces / Fraught with kisses sweet as wine.