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Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;
Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;
Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font:
The fire-fly wakens: waken thou with me.
Now droops the milk-white peacock like a ghost,
And like a ghost she glimmers on to me.
Now lies the earth all Danaë to the stars,
And all thy heart lies open unto me.
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Duerme ya el pétalo carmesí, también el blanco.
No ondulan ya los cipreses en la senda del palacio
ni la aleta dorada brilla en la fuente de pórfido.
Despierta la luciérnaga. Despierta tú conmigo.
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