Detdiar sidj as efterluket wurden.
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I've seen, I've heard you, all these years,
But as a statue sees and hears.
Now first, now first, my heart ye move !
I feel my soul, less selfish grown,
Is of a purer, higher tone
Since first," — but here a sudden red
The maiden's features overspread ;
She paused ; a smothered sigh confessed
The thought her words but half expressed.
His song renews the nightingale,
While lists the moon, 'neath cloudy veil ;
And in a long unending kiss
As warm as life, nor faithful less
Than the still grave, their souls, set free,
Melted in one blest harmony !
They kissed as on the altar-stone
Two flames kiss and become but one,
Which, glowing with a stronger light,
Soars loftier in its heavenward flight.
