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ATLANTIS.
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Down lapsing waves their filmy raiment sailed,
Nor scarce their half-emergent forms might screen;
Along the surf their white arms lightly trailed,
Or lifted high the sea-weed garland green:
They swam on either hand—the chariot rolled between.
Nor scarce their half-emergent forms might screen;
Along the surf their white arms lightly trailed,
Or lifted high the sea-weed garland green:
They swam on either hand—the chariot rolled between.
XII.
And every naiad-voice at whiles out-breaking,
In bursts of songful sweetness pealed around;
Thereafter valley-groves and uplands, waking,
All resonant, air-enriching murmurs found.
No passing breath but bore its freight of sound,
And by unrifled roses, dying, sang;
Nor jarring note the eager ear might wound,
But clear and loud the choral pæans rang,
As up the pebbled beach the steed, unweary, sprang.
And every naiad-voice at whiles out-breaking,
In bursts of songful sweetness pealed around;
Thereafter valley-groves and uplands, waking,
All resonant, air-enriching murmurs found.
No passing breath but bore its freight of sound,
And by unrifled roses, dying, sang;
Nor jarring note the eager ear might wound,
But clear and loud the choral pæans rang,
As up the pebbled beach the steed, unweary, sprang.
XIII.
To earth light leaped the god, while dale and plain,
To earth light leaped the god, while dale and plain,
