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“THE DREAM THAT WE BEHELD”
The dream that we beheld will never more
On mortal wondering dazzled eyes descend.
The sea, less jewelled, will break along the shore:
Love's voice with music will less softly blend.
On mortal wondering dazzled eyes descend.
The sea, less jewelled, will break along the shore:
Love's voice with music will less softly blend.
The rose will veil its splendour when we die.
“Something there was within its tender bloom”
Each loving heart may say, “which, living, I,
I only, saw,—that ceases at my tomb.”
“Something there was within its tender bloom”
Each loving heart may say, “which, living, I,
I only, saw,—that ceases at my tomb.”
And woman? Did not one soul find her fair
Beyond all mortals who have lived and died?
Breathe all heaven's fragrance in her marvellous hair?
Touch in her breast the softness of God's Bride?
Beyond all mortals who have lived and died?
Breathe all heaven's fragrance in her marvellous hair?
Touch in her breast the softness of God's Bride?
July 31, 1901.
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