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The Turquoise Story Book

by Ada M. Skinner and Eleanor L. Skinner

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The Moon

That orbèd maiden, with white fire laden,
  Whom mortals call the moon,
Glides glimmering o’er my fleece-like floor,
  By the midnight breezes strewn;
And wherever the beat of her unseen feet,
  Which only the angels hear,
May have broken the woof of my tent’s thin roof,
  The stars peep behind her and peer;
And I laugh to see them whirl and flee,
  Like a swarm of golden bees,
When I widen the rent in my wind-built tent,
  Till the calm rivers, lakes, and seas,
Like strips of the sky fallen through me on high,
  Are each paved with the moon and these.

Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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