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Illusions
All around are things not real,
You see unicorns, demons, and things with wings,
In your eyes they are colored blue, green, and
teal,
You make yourself believe these fabulous things.
You see them gallop, run, and soar,
You walk among the things for so long have been
marked unseen,
You see no unsettled scores,
You bask among all that is serene.
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You ride
the mythical unicorn,
And laugh and smile amongst the flowers,
You feel the their manes and horns,
And feel their mighty power.
When you feel you never want to leave you open
your eyes to things seen,
You look around at all the bore,
You try to remember things that have been,
But your mind seems like it is being torn.
So learn this lesson for your good,
These dreams are like a song,
You listen to them as long as you could,
But you can't remember all the words for long.
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By Julie Bell
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OPHELIA
(Arthur Rimbaud)
I
On the calm black water where the stars are
sleeping, white
Ophelia floats like a great lily; floats very
slowly, lying in her long veils... -- In the
far-off
woods, you can hear them sound the mort.
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For more
than a thousand years sad Ophelia has passed, a
white
ghost, down the long black river. For
more than a thousand years her sweet madness has
murmured its
ballad in the evening breeze.
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The wind
kisses her breasts and unfolds in a wreath her
great veils
rocked gently by the waters; the
shivering willows weep on her shoulder, the
rushes lean over her
wide, dreaming brow.
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The
ruffled water-lilies are sighing about her; at
times, she
rouses, in a slumbering alder, some nest
from which escapes the small rustle of wings; --
A mysterious
anthem falls from the golden stars.
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II
O pale Ophelia! beautiful as snow! Yes, child,
you died, carried
off by a river! -- It was the winds falling
from the great mountains of Norway that spoke to
you in low
voices of bitter freedom;
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It was a
breath of wind, that, twisting your great
tresses,
brought strange rumours to your dreaming
mind; it was your heart, listening to the song of
Nature, in the
groans of the trees and the sighs of the nights;
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It was
the voice of mad seas, the great roar, that
shattered your
child's heart, too human, too soft; it was
the fair pale nobleman, one morning in April, the
poor madman who
sat dumb at your knees!
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Heaven!
Love! Freedom! What a dream, oh poor crazed Girl!
You
melted to him as snow does to a fire;
your marvellous visions choked your words -- a
fearful Infinity
dazzled your blue eye!
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III
--And the Poet says that by starlight you come
seeking, in the
night, the flowers that you gathered; and
that he has seen on the water, lying in her long
veils, white
Ophelia floating, like a great lily.
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