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I think the most beautiful poem I have ever read is a very short one, marvelously economic of words, painting a lovely picture, with an interesting philosophical concept.
It describes a Roman fountain with a vertical jet that falls back to fill three successively larger basins achieving equilibrium.
Der Römische Brunnen by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
Aufsteigt der Strahl, und fallend gießt
Er voll der Marmorschale Rund
Die, sich verschleiernd, überfließt
In einer zweiten Schale Grund;
Die zweite gibt, sie wird zu reich,
Der dritten wallend ihre Flut
Und jede nimmt und gibt zugleich
Und strömt und ruht……
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