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[VI No dewdrop is stiller]

No dewdrop is stiller
In its lapin-leaf setting
Than this water mossbounded;
But a tiny sand-pillar
From the bottom keeps jetting,
And mermaid ne'er sounded
Though the wreaths of a shell,
Down amid crimson dulses
In some dell of the ocean,
A melody sweeter
Than the delicate pulses,
The soft, noiseless metre,
The pause & the swell
Of that musical motion.