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[Labriola P. <wa...@el...>]

Osts, in every field Flowers crowded thick; and trees, not tall nor
rude, With slender stems upholding feathery shade, Nodded
their heads and hung
their pliant limbs In natural bowers, sweet with delicious gloom.
Queen OENE sent her luminous glance afar: Fine rays of tintless light
played round her head, Crowning
her beauty with mysterious glory. She gazed away, beyond the tranquil
sea, To distant mountains of

unchanging snow, And still beyond, to where full many a tower
And fortress

reared their walls of gleaming ice On the dim verges of her vast
domains. Scarcely had she in silence throned herself, Ere from the
trees, or flower-coves of the shore, Or gliding in from idling on the
sea, Her maids of honor came, a virgin train, Like a bright
constellation clustering round The central star, most glorious of
them all. One, in a
crimson blossom, torn away From its far moorings, nestled at her
ease, Was seen slowly to skim the silver
lake; While the huge
flower seemed of itself propelled, Save that, by