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Themes and Variations
Of leaves never falling in lands of unchangeable summer;
And palm-trees that sing like the sails of a ship; and the perfume
That steals in the dark from the disc of the night-blowing cerens,—
Then something stirs in the snow, something breaks in the marble,
Something bids it forsake these cold ridges and peaks everlasting,
And plunging from cliff to crag, ’mid the shriek of the echoes,
It thunders along the ravine till it sinks in the river.
And palm-trees that sing like the sails of a ship; and the perfume
That steals in the dark from the disc of the night-blowing cerens,—
Then something stirs in the snow, something breaks in the marble,
Something bids it forsake these cold ridges and peaks everlasting,
And plunging from cliff to crag, ’mid the shriek of the echoes,
It thunders along the ravine till it sinks in the river.