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Where sunless rivers weep / Their waves into the deep, / She sleeps a charmèd sleep: / Awake her not. / Led by a single star, / She came from very far / To seek where shadows are / Her pleasant lot.
She left the rosy morn, / She left the fields of corn, / For twilight cold and lorn / And water springs. / Through sleep, as through a veil, / She sees the sky look pale, / And hears the nightingale / That sadly sings.
Rest, rest, a perfect rest / Shed over brow and breast; / Her face is toward the west, / The purple land. / She cannot see the grain / Ripening on hill and plain; / She cannot feel the rain / Upon her hand.
Rest, rest, forevermore / Upon a mossy shore; / Rest, rest at the heart's core / Till time shall cease: / Sleep that no pain shall wake, / Night that no morn shall break, / Till joy shall overtake / Her perfect peace.