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Слушать(AI)Sonnet XII
Like as a dryad, from her native bole Coming at dusk, when the dim stars emerge,
To a slow river at whose silent verge Tall poplars tremble and deep grasses roll,
Come thou no less and, kneeling in a shoal Of the freaked flag and meadow buttercup,
Bend till thine image from the pool beam up Arched with blue heaven like an aureole.
See how adorable in fancy then Lives the fair face it mirrors even so,
O thou whose beauty moving among men Is like the wind's way on the woods below,
Filling all nature where its pathway lies With arms that supplicate and trembling sighs.
Alan Seeger
Alan Seeger (22 June 1888 – 4 July 1916) was an American war poet who fought and died in World War I during the Battle of the Somme, serving in
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