Moments of Vision: Lines to a Movement in Mozart's E-flat Symphony

Lines to a Movement in Mozart's E-flat Symphony

      Show me again the time
      When in the Junetide's prime
   We flew by meads and mountains northerly! -
Yea, to such freshness, fairness, fulness, fineness, freeness,
      Love lures life on.
      Show me again the day
      When from the sandy bay
   We looked together upon the pestered sea! -
Yea, to such surging, swaying, sighing, swelling, shrinking,
      Love lures life on.
      Show me again the hour
      When by the pinnacled tower
   We eyed each other and feared futurity! -
Yea, to such bodings, broodings, beatings, blanchings, blessings,
      Love lures life on.
      Show me again just this:
      The moment of that kiss
   Away from the prancing folk, by the strawberry-tree! -
Yea, to such rashness, ratheness, rareness, ripeness, richness,
      Love lures life on.

Begun November 1898.

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