O time, arrest your flight! and you, propitious hours, arrest your course! Let us savor… — Alphonse de Lamartine
O time, arrest your flight! and you, propitious hours, arrest your course! Let us savor the fleeting delights of our most beautiful days.
In the original French
Ô temps, suspends ton vol! et vous, heures propices, Suspendez votre cours! Laissez-nous savourer les rapides délices Des plus beaux de nos jours!
The Lake · 1820
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De Lamartine, Alphonse. "Le Lac [The Lake]." Recueillements poétiques [Poetic Meditations]. Paris: Imp P. Didot L'aine, 1820.
