As he whispered, "Fairest, fairest,
Rest upon this crystal bosom!"
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In the new version the title has been changed, and some of the opening lines altered, but from the point where the above extract closes to the end of the poem, the two versions are very similar, and the later one is quoted in full:—
SONG OF LOWER-WATER.
When the summer Moon was sleeping
On the Sands of Lower-Water—
By the Lowest Water Margin—
At the mark of Dead Low Water,—