I read on a poem on a wintery day Some kind of soham: Nothing gold can stay. And even this saying might be much true, So much is staying That is golden too. So much you can't touch, So much you can't see, So much of you Forever in me. For Time can take, And Time can break, Things we've touched And things we've seen But Time, Valensa, My love of Provença, Can nothing do to what we have been.
Valensa is the heroine of a now forgotten story quoted in a medieval French song, "A chantar mer".