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[The blue wild hyssop, with its dewy mouth]
The blue wild hyssop, with its dewy mouth,—Cool, moist, and heavenly 'mid the pink-bloomed mint
Along the shallow creek, shrunk with the drouth,—
Seen suddenly thus, seems, swift, an instant's hint
Of some dim being—one, whom, still in vain,
I follow where their many delicate ears
The purple beard's-tongue and lobelia lean
Sidewise to silence, listening for the rain
Tiptoeing the trees through which she flees again—
The presence that my soul adores yet fears,
The Loveliness my eyes have never seen.
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