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ROMANCE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come over the waters and find me!
Last Line: Come over the waters and save me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns


COME over the waters and find me!
The weeds by the wet shore bind me.
The water-snakes float
Round my slime-dragged boat,
And the clouds of the sun-dust blind me.

Come over the waters and hold me!
Hot fingers of Horror enfold me.
My white swan lies dead
In his nest blood-red,
But the marsh-geese chase me and scold me.

Come over the waters and woo me!
The rude Marsh-People pursue me.
From tussock and brake
They leer and they shake
Their hairy hands holden unto me.

Come over! Come over! Come over!
O Beautiful Sunrise Lover!
Come over the hill of the waters!
-- I am one of a great King's daughters:
I am fair, I am sweet,
From my head to my feet;
I am young as the day;
Yet my heart grows gray
Ere the terrible charm be broken:
Ere the dawn-word swiftly be spoken:
And my boat swing free
To the clear blue sea,
And the sin of my race be wroken!

Come over! I cry unto thee.
I cover my face and sue thee.
The Marsh Men seize and enslave me!
Come over the waters and save me!





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