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OESCHENEN.
You should have stay'd, and stay'd alone,
Beneath those shadows of the pines,
Until the golden day was done:
Then, that lone lake looks up, and shines
With such a smile as might express
The best of human happiness.
Beneath those shadows of the pines,
Until the golden day was done:
Then, that lone lake looks up, and shines
With such a smile as might express
The best of human happiness.
No foot is near; a marmot's cry
Strikes the deep silence deeper still;
And those great mountain-walls on high
Are dark with various glooms, that fill
The dusky vale. Whence comes it, then,
The glow that burns on Oeschenen?
Strikes the deep silence deeper still;
And those great mountain-walls on high
Are dark with various glooms, that fill
The dusky vale. Whence comes it, then,
The glow that burns on Oeschenen?
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Ah, look yet higher, toward the East!
Yon white Alp in the far blue sky
Bares to the sun her virgin breast
That he may kiss her ere he die;
Then, blushes through her trackless snows
One pure illimitable rose.
Yon white Alp in the far blue sky
Bares to the sun her virgin breast
That he may kiss her ere he die;
Then, blushes through her trackless snows
One pure illimitable rose.
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