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transcription: Today.

Today, beloved, I sit beside
A little pool, dark, shadowed
Scarce shuttled with a sunny ray.
How may I dream dreams in such
A spot? How may I know me
In this reflection? This is not I
Whose lips sae mournful press.
This is not I.
Beside the pool in a shadowed spot
Secluded, how may I dream,
How may I sing, hownmay [how may] I loose
My lips of the thousand things
They'd speak?

Today I sit beside a little pool
A shadowed spot, scarce shuttled
Of sunlight. Yet in an ecstasy
I bend waiting for the leaves
To part, for the wind to tear asunder
The bower o'erhead, letting the great sun
Splash in a golden spattering, flecking
The darksome sheen with magic light.

Today I sit beside
A little pool --- thy heart, beloved.

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