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I am a Shell out of the Asian sea, / But my sad Pearl is gone, / Risen to be Goddess -- Venus green is she / And I cast up alone.
Yet some night shall her brilliance stoop and take / Unto her ear this shell, / And hear the whisper of her own heart-break... / All that I serve to tell.