Between the Mountains and the Plain
Between the mountains and the plain
We leaned upon a rampart old;
Beneath, branch—blossoms trembled white;
Far—off a dusky fringe of rain
Brushed low along a sky of gold,
Where earth spread lost in endless light.
The mountains in their glory rose,
Peak thronging peak; cloud—shadows mapped
The purpling brown with milky blue;
Removed, austere, shone rarer snows
Above dark ridges vapour—wrapped—
Afar shone, Love, for me and you.
Sky—seeking mountains, boundless plain!
Old walls, and April—blossomed trees!
Of ever—young, world—ancient power,
The height, the space, was your refrain.
In us, us too, eternities
Made of that moment a white flower.
