Wondrous Moment

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The wondrous moment of our meeting . . .
I well remember you appear 
Before me like a vision fleeting, 
A beauty's angel pure and clear. 

In hopeless ennui surrounding 
The worldly bustle, to my ear 
For long your tender voice kept sounding, 
For long in dreams came features dear. 

Time passed. Unruly storms confounded 
Old dreams, and I from year to year 
Forgot how tender you had sounded, 
Your heavenly features once so dear. 

My backwoods days dragged slow and quiet —
Dull fence around, dark vault above —
Devoid of God and uninspired, 
Devoid of tears, of fire, of love. 

Sleep from my soul began retreating, 
And here you once again appear 
Before me like a vision fleeting, 
A beauty's angel pure and clear. 

In ecstasy the heart is beating, 
Old joys for it anew revive; 
Inspired and God-filled, it is greeting 
The fire, and tears, and love alive.


--
Alexander Pushkin


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