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I sank far into the waters, and sought not to return I felt as

if once

me, like a

little sick child, that I should be better to- arain, but did not unclose my eyes I would not look on the wintry sea,

and the pitiless gray sky Thus I floated, till so beside me How it came there I could

not tell; but it rose and sank on the waters, and kept touching me in

its fall, as if with a human will to let ay-coloured boat, see scales

like those of a fish, all of brilliant rainbow hues I scrambled into

it, and lay down in the bottom, with a sense of exquisite repose

Then I drew over me a rich, heavy, purple cloth that was besidestill, knew, by the sound of the waters, that , however, none of that stormy motion

which the sea had manifested when I beheld it fro first up, saw above ht; and then, lifting

fast upon a suht The

aureole of the sun yet shot the extreest rays

above the horizon-waves, and withdrew thereat and earnest, like children's eyes, bent down

lovingly towards the waters; and the reflected stars within see to meet their embraces But when I looked down,