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Beauty Evanescent - ZaunköniG - 18.06.2007 Beauty Evanescent Beside her I could be a thousand years And talk with her, and muse, and think I caught Her very spirit, and yet catch it not; So subtle is it: Two translucent spheres Should flash it forth; it flames, then disappears. A mouth all music should translate it well; It flows like music--whither none can tell; It wraps all senses round, soothes, charms, and cheers. And when we feel, peer, listen, would confine And grasp its very self, it slips away, Like the elusive beauty of a day In autumn, leaving of its track no sign. And yet the search we every day renew, Pleased to be foiled, yet foiled, still to pursue. |