Oh, all ye gleams of love, ye divine
fleeting gleams!
in their vivid colouring of life - As in that
fleeting, shadowy, misty strife Of semblance with reality which brings To the delirious eye more lovely things Of Paradise & Love - & all our own!
Oh-- We'll drink to-night with hearts as light, To love, as gay and
fleeting As bubbles that swim, on the beaker's brim, And break on the lips while meeting.
Thrice had they caught
fleeting glimpses of great man-like figures like that of the first night, but never at sufficiently close range to know positively whether the half-seen forms were those of man or brute.
oh, ever vernal endless landscapes in the soul; in ye, --though long parched by the dead drought of the earthy life, --in ye, men yet may roll, like young horses in new morning clover; and for some few
fleeting moments, feel the cool dew of the life immortal on them.