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/ Vague, vague 'neath darkling waves, / With emerald-curving caves / For the arched skies, / Red-walled with dark dull gold / The Nixes' city old / Deep-glimmering lies. / And thro' the long green nights the spangling spars / Twinkle like milky stars.
/ Where the wind-ripple plays / On tufts of dipping sprays / Sparkling we rock; / With blooming fingers bare / Comb down our golden hair / In many a lock; / While, poured o'er naked ease of cool, moist limbs, / An amber glamour swims.
/ Or in the middle night / When cold damp fire-flies light / Pale flitting brands / Down all the woodland aisles, / With swift mysterious smiles / Link we white hands, / And where the moonlight haunts the drowsy lake / Bask in its silver wake.
/ Come join, come join our dance / While the warm starbeams glance, / And the kind moon / Spills all her flowers of light / At the dark feet of Night, / And soon, full soon, / Thou'lt sleep in shadowy halls where dim and cold / Our city's walled with gold.