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MIRÈIO.
[Canto III.
IX.
"When thou, a stream, dost feed
The flower yonder,
I will turn cloud straightway,
And to America
Away I 'll wander."
X.
"Though thou to India
Fly from thy lover,
Still I will follow thee:
I the sea-breeze will be
To waft thee over!"
XI.
"I can outstrip the breeze
Fast as it flieth:
I 'll be the swift sun-ray
That melts the ice away
And the gross drieth!"
XII.
"Sunlight if thou become,
Are my wiles ended?
I 'll be a lizard green,
And quaff the golden sheen
To make me splendid!"
XIII.
"Be thou a Triton, hid
In the dark sedges!
I 'm the moon by whose ray
Fairies and witches pay
Their mystic pledges!"
