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Adrian Mitchell
born 1932


The Woman of Water

There once was a woman of water
Refused a wizard her hand,
So he took the tears from a statue
And the weight from a grain of sand,
And he drained the dark from midnight,
And the height from a cypress tree,
And he squeezed the sap from a comet,
And he charmed the brains from a bee.
And he soured the mixture with thunder
And he stirred it with ice from hell,
And the woman of water drank it down
And she changed into a well.

There once was a woman of water
Who was changed into a well,
And the well smiled up at the wizard
And down down down that old wizard fell...

What a compelling flight of fancy. I love it.



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