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=Dualisms=

Two bees within a chrystal flowerbell rockèd

Hum a lovelay to the westwind at noontide.

Both alike, they buzz together,

Both alike, they hum together

Through and through the flowered heather.

Where in a creeping cove the wave unshockèd

Lays itself calm and wide,

Over a stream two birds of glancing feather

Do woo each other, carolling together.

Both alike, they glide together

Side by side;

Both alike, they sing together,

Arching blue-glossèd necks beneath the purple weather.

Two children lovelier than love, adown the lea are singing,

As they gambol, lilygarlands ever stringing:

Both in blosmwhite silk are frockèd:

Like, unlike, they roam together

Under a summervault of golden weather;

Like, unlike, they sing together

Side by side;

Mid May's darling goldenlockèd,

Summer's tanling diamondeyed.

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