aube éphémère de reflets

"Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
[...]
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden.
[...]
Other echoes
Inhabit the garden. Shall we follow?"

Thomas Stearns Eliot, The Waste Land