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She stay'd her breath to listen to his words, Scarce daring credit her own happiness. There stood they, with the rich red light of eve Yet lingering, like a glory, on their heads, In the snow mirror of the mountain peak;— A bright laburnum grew beside,—its boughs Flung over them a golden shower: the wave That wander'd at their feet was clear as Hope; Their shapes were outlined in it; and one star, Reflected too, shone like an augury Of good between them.—There they leant, while hours Pass'd, as time had no boundaries. O earth, Yet art thou touch'd by heaven, though only touch'd,— Thy pleasures are but rainbows, which unite