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II.

The tree-roots met in the spongy ground,

  Looking where water lay; Because they met, they twined around,

  Embraced, and went their way.

Drop dashed on drop, as the rain-shower fell,

  Yet they strove not, but joined together; And they rose from the earth a bright clear well,

  Singing in sunny weather.

Sound met sound in the wavy air;

  They kissed as sisters true; Yet, jostling not on their journey fair,

  Each on its own path flew.

Wind met wind in a garden green;

  Each for its own way pled; And a trampling whirlwind danced between,

  Till the flower of Love lay dead.



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