My heart beat fast, a horse! away! Quicker than thought I am astride, Earth now lulled by end of day, Night hovering on the mountainside. A robe of mist around him flung, The oak a towering giant stood, A hundred eyes of jet had sprung From darkness in the bushy wood.
Atop a hill of cloud the moon Shed piteous glimmers through the mist, Softly the wind took flight, and soon With horrible wings around me hissed. Night made a thousand ghouls respire, Of what I felt, a thousanth part--- My mind, what a consuming fire! What a glow was in my heart!
You I saw, your look replied, Your sweet felicity, my own, My heart was with you, at your side, I breathed for you, for you alone. A blush was there, as if your face A rosy hue of Spring had caught, For me---ye gods!---this tenderness! I hoped, and I deserved it not.
Yet soon the morning sun was there, My heart, ah, shrank as leave I took: How rapturous your kisses were, What anguish then was in your look! I left, you stood with downcast eyes, In tears you saw me riding off: Yet, to be loved, what happiness! What happiness, ye gods, to love!
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