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Title: The Water Lily Author: Henry Lawson * A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook * eBook No.: 2001111h.html Language: English Date first posted: September 2020 Most recent update: September 2020 This eBook was produced by: Walter Moore Project Gutenberg of Australia eBooks are created from printed editions which are in the public domain in Australia, unless a copyright notice is included. We do NOT keep any eBooks in compliance with a particular paper edition. Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing this file. This eBook is made available at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg Australia Licence which may be viewed online.
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“THE WATER-LILIE.”
Suggested by a curious dream related to the writer by a lady friend.
A lonely young
wife
In her dreaming discerns
A lily-decked pool
With a border of ferns,
And a beautiful child,
With butterfly wings,
Trips down to the edge of the water and sings,—
“Come, mamma! come!
Quick! follow me—
Step out on the leaves of the water-lilié!”
And the lonely young wife,
Her heart beating wild,
Cries, “Wait till I come,
Till I reach you, my child!”
But the beautiful child
With butterfly wings
Steps out on the leaves of the lilies and sings,—
“Come, mamma! come!
Quick! follow me!
And step on the leaves of the water-lilié!”
And the wife in her dreaming
Steps out on the stream,
But the lily leaves sink
And she wakes from her dream.
Ah, the waking is sad,
For the tears that it brings,
And she knows ’tis her dead baby’s spirit that sings,—
“Come, mamma! come!
Quick! follow me!
Step out on the leaves of the water-lilié!”
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