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Live Oak, with Moss, Leaf 5
And when I thought how my friend, my lover,
was coming, then O^
I was happy;
O tThen eEach breath
tasted sweeter—and
all that day
my food nourished me
more—And the
beautiful day passed
well,
And the next came with equal joy—And with
the next, at
evening, came my friend,
And that night, while all was still, I heard the
waters roll
slowly continually up the
shores
I heard the hissing rustle of the liquid and
sands, as directed
to me, whispering,
to congratulate
me,—For the friend I
love lay sleeping
by my side,
In the stillness his face was inclined towards
me, while the
moon's clear beams
shone, And his
arm lay lightly over my
breast—And that
night I was happy.
(on this leaf, beneath the paste-over, is an earlier version of the
conclusion, with no strikethroughs)
And that night O you happy waters, I heard
you beating
the shores—But my heart
beat happier
than you—for he I love is
returned and
sleeping by my side,
And that night in the stillness his face was
inclined toward
me while the moon's
clear beams
shone,
And his arm lay lightly over my breast—And
that night I
was happy.
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