In the shadow of a broken house, <br />Down a deserted street, <br />Propt walls, cold hearths, and phantom stairs, <br />And the silence of dead feet — <br />Locked wildly in one another's arms <br />I saw two lovers meet. <br /> <br />And over that hearthless house aghast <br />Rose from the mind's abyss <br />Lost stars and ruined, peering moons, <br />Worlds overshadowing this, — <br />Time's stony palace crumbled down <br />Before that instant kiss.<br /><br />Robert Laurence Binyon<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-glimpse-of-time/
