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Twenty Years Later
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já nos vaj da | 65 j á n o s vaj da (18 2 7 – 18 9 7) Twenty Years Later Like snow on Mont Blanc’s distant crest, That neither sun nor wind may harm, My unvexed heart now lies at rest, Inflamed by no new passion’s charm. Round me a myriad stars contend Which casts the most flirtatious glow, And on my head their bright rays bend, Yet never do I melt or flow. But sometimes on a silent night, In lonely dreamings, half-awake, Your swanlike image floats, so white, On vanished youth’s enchanted lake. And then my heart flares up again, As after a long winter’s night Mont Blanc’s eternal snowfields, when The rising sun turns them to light . . . 1876 ...