The Mer de Glace.
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The crystal typifies the spray Not lost on Alpine breeze,Nor thrown in garlands on the ice, But left like tears to freeze.They call all this the type of death, O rather call it life!For nature dies not here, this seems To be unchanging life.
This river flows not to the sea, These flowers do not die;The very air seems but transfixed To one eternal sigh.
Chamounix, 1861.
