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Summary: A moralistic rebuke and rejection. Still uses striking imagery. Refers to the mermaid as nephilim, “half fish, half fallen angel… Sloping to hateful sunsets… Hollow with mineshafts, naked with granite, fanatic/With sorrow, abortions of the past.”

Summary: A ballad describing the landscape of Zennor, the grey granite, bleak fields and legend carved in teak. On the horizon appears foam with the waves and the ascending seabirds. The mermaid implores the young boy to come down from the church stones to be with her.

Summary: A memorial to the mermaid chair, carved from holy oak in the city of Zennor. A sea lady is intrigued by a young man’s singing. They both disapear and sailors see them in the ocean.

Summary: A mermaid hears the singing of a pretty boy and bodes him to join her in the sea, away from the troubles of the land.

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