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UNEXPECTED.
Through the emerald-golden dimness
Of the sea by summer lighted,
In pride of purple and silver,
The fish swims glad and gay;
The ocean forests under,
To the wave's embrace abandoned,
In gloomy tangle sway:
And he rises, ever rises
Nearer the glow of the day;—
Of the sea by summer lighted,
In pride of purple and silver,
The fish swims glad and gay;
The ocean forests under,
To the wave's embrace abandoned,
In gloomy tangle sway:
And he rises, ever rises
Nearer the glow of the day;—
Where the wave grows brighter and clearer,
As it pouts its ripples of crystal,
Catching the beams and feeding
On the jewel food of the sun;—
And the fish has joy in the splendour,
That shines for ever intenser,
By the brink of the upper world;—
Where never a shadow affrights him,
Save death's,—in the pounce of the gull.
As it pouts its ripples of crystal,
Catching the beams and feeding
On the jewel food of the sun;—
And the fish has joy in the splendour,
That shines for ever intenser,
By the brink of the upper world;—
Where never a shadow affrights him,
Save death's,—in the pounce of the gull.
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