After trying many years, and then br near death, the able man may know br an image living in the alpine stone. br If at all, the high and new come slowly, br and, for us, they do not last so long. br Oh my beloved! nature's like that too, br who tried for beauty times untold br until she triumphed, and made you. br Yet by that token she is old br and almost at the end of her career. br So terror, which is always near br to beauty, feeds desire strange food. br My mind falls silent and no longer says br if joy or pain be more: the sight br of you calls forth the End of Days, br yet gives me great delight.