Vanity Fair movie - Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal lyrics

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Song by Custer LaRue<br /><br>

Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;<br>

Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;<br>

Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font:<br>

The fire-fly wakens: waken thou with me.<br>

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Now droops the milkwhite peacock like a ghost,<br>

And like a ghost she glimmers on to me.<br>

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Now lies the Earth all Danaë to the stars,<br>

And all thy heart lies open unto me.<br>

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Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves<br>

A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me.<br>

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Now folds the lily all her sweetness up,<br>

And slips into the bosom of the lake:<br>

So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip<br>

Into my bosom and be lost in me.<br>

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