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THALIA.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

O sweet, pale face! O lovely eyes of azure,

Clear as the waters of a brook that run

Limpid and laughing in the summer sun!

O golden hair that like a miser's treasure

In its abundance overflows the measure!

O graceful form, that cloudlike floatest on

With the soft, undulating gait of one

Who moveth as if motion were a pleasure!

By what name shall I call thee? Nymph or Muse,

Callirrhoe or Urania? Some sweet name

Whose every syllable is a caress

Would best befit thee; but I cannot choose,

Nor do I care to choose; for still the same,

Nameless or named, will be thy loveliness.