The Maudlin season has come
The gull and loon play at peace
At the falling of the sun
That sets beneathe the red leaf

And all the nets are drawn in
She bathes naked in form
O holy be her brown skin
Darker than the coming storm !

I compose my rainy psalms
Upon the leaf of her heart
And she gives them me as alms
For the wages of my art

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