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The meadow and the mountain with desire / Gazed on each other, till a fierce unrest / Surged 'neath the meadow's seemingly calm breast, / And all the mountain's fissures ran with fire.
A mighty river rolled between them there. / What could the mountain do but gaze and burn? / What could the meadow do but look and yearn, / And gem its bosom to conceal despair?
Their seething passion agitated space, / Till, lo! the lands a sudden earthquake shook, / The river fled, the meadow leaped and took / The leaning mountain in a close embrace.