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XIV.
A WELL.
What mystery pervades a well!
The water lives so far,
Like neighbor from another world
Residing in a jar.
The water lives so far,
Like neighbor from another world
Residing in a jar.
The grass does not appear afraid;
I often wonder he
Can stand so close and look so bold
At what is dread to me.
I often wonder he
Can stand so close and look so bold
At what is dread to me.
Related somehow they may be,—
The sedge stands next the sea,
Where he is floorless, yet of fear
No evidence gives he.
The sedge stands next the sea,
Where he is floorless, yet of fear
No evidence gives he.
But nature is a stranger yet;
The ones that cite her most
Have never passed her haunted house,
Nor simplified her ghost.
The ones that cite her most
Have never passed her haunted house,
Nor simplified her ghost.
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To pity those that know her not
Is helped by the regret
That those who know her, know her less
The nearer her they get.
Is helped by the regret
That those who know her, know her less
The nearer her they get.
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