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MORNING HAZE ON DERWENTWATER, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soft through a veil of amethystine mist
Last Line: To beauty and to praise.
Subject(s): Derwentwater (lake), England; Southey, Robert (1774-1843)


Soft through a veil of amethystine mist
The gentle waters shine,
Tender and dreamful as a maiden, kissed
By unseen lips divine.

The sky is pearl, the hills are darker pearl;
And far on yonder shore
A gleam of silver -- is it not the swirl
Of Southey's own Lodore?

This is the scene anointed Southey's eyes
And filled his placid days;
And still these holy waters may baptize
To beauty and to praise.





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