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Rh The mountains stand and laugh at Time;

They pillar up the Earth,

They watch the ages pass, they bring

New centuries to birth.

They feel the daybreak shiver,

They see Time passing ever

As flows the Jumna river,

As breaks the white sea-surf.

They drink the sun in a golden cup,

And in blue mist the rain;

With a sudden brightening they meet the lightning

Or ere it strikes the plain.

They seize the sullen thunder,

And take it up for plunder,

And cast it down and under,

And up and back again.

They are as changeless as the rock,

As changeful as the sea;

They rest, but as a lover rests

After love's ecstasy.

They watch, as a true lover

Watches the quick lights hover

About the lids that cover

His eyes so wearily.

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