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(From the French of Émile Verhaeren)
He who walks through the meadows of Champagne / At noon in Fall, when leaves like gold appear, / Sees it draw near / Like some great mountain set upon the plain, / From radiant dawn until the close of day, / Nearer it grows / To him who goes / Across the country. When tall towers lay / Their shadowy pall / Upon his way, / He enters, where / The solid stone is hollowed deep by all / Its centuries of beauty and of prayer.