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Take a portion of the crystalline sky

and meld it to your face, Ocean

Take a portion of your love

and give it to me. Ocean

Sing a song with me

under waves under silt.

In muddy water

In the castles we have built.

Sing a song under fathoms.

Sing a song in coral and in fishes.

Sing a song of the mermaids tail.

And her slender arms.

And sea-chests brimming with gold.

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