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In primeval times, a maiden, / Beauteous Daughter of the Ether, / Passed for ages her existence / In the great expanse of heaven, / O'er the prairies yet enfolded.
Wearisome the maiden growing, / Her existence sad and hopeless, / Thus alone to live for ages / In the infinite expanses / Of the air above the sea-foam, / In the far outstretching spaces, / In a solitude of ether, / She descended to the ocean, / Waves her coach, and waves her pillow.