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/ I. Oh, to see in the night in a May moon's light / A nymph from siren caves, / With a crown of pearl, sea-gems in each curl / Dance down white, star-stained waves! / Oh, to list in the gloam by the pearly foam / Of a sad, far-sounding shore / The strain of the shell of an ocean belle / From caves where the waters roar! / With a hollow shell drift up in the moon / To sigh in my ears this ocean tune: --
/ II. "Wilt follow, wilt follow to caverns hollow, / That echo the tumbling spry? / Wilt follow thy queen to islands green, / Vague islands of witchery? / O follow, follow to grottoes hollow, / And isles in a purple sea, / Where rich roses twine and the lush woodbine / Weaves a musky canopy!"