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