Moon in the water and a sleeping swan,
It's beautiful, you say and I agree.
It's surely beautiful, and so are we.
And so are we. Quick now now, before it's gone,
Let's catch it with a kiss, let's seal it on
Our beating hearts, let's carve it on a tree.
Do you feel it? Yes you surely do. Do you see?
Let's write it in the scattering stars that shone
When life was but a dream and earth a crust
A billion, zillion years before this night?
We love not as we would but as we must;
We know it's beautiful; we know it's right.
Those stars shine still when we are dead and dust.
Whoever loved who loved not at first sight?
That's the whole poem. Now where did she see it?
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