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AN ETERNAL MOMENT

Here there is rain & dead leaves whirling?
I hear not, see not. In mine eyes
Is sunlight, in mine ears the swirling
Of snow-fed waters. Which are lies?
Ah, living dream! The cloudlike splendour
Of Monte Rosa far above;
And at our feet the Alp-flowers tender,
A thousand blue eyes looking love.