Flower Pieces and other poems By William Allingham: With two designs by Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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HALF-DREAMING.
In morning mist and dream I lay,
And saw, methought, two Babes at play,
In a green garden, girl and boy;
With Lucy painting in her chair,
The sunshine catching golden hair
At moments when she lifts her head
To look at these, and share their joy.
Kind happy Dream!—Ah, sting of woe!
This used to be, long time ago.
The Mother and the Babes are dead,
And I am old and lonely: fled
Life's pleasure now, itself a dream.
And saw, methought, two Babes at play,
In a green garden, girl and boy;
With Lucy painting in her chair,
The sunshine catching golden hair
At moments when she lifts her head
To look at these, and share their joy.
Kind happy Dream!—Ah, sting of woe!
This used to be, long time ago.
The Mother and the Babes are dead,
And I am old and lonely: fled
Life's pleasure now, itself a dream.
How long a dream lasts, who can say,
Or how it drifts and intershifts?
I woke, I saw the sunny beam,
I heard the shrieking of the swifts,
Then flung my curtain back. Below,
Two merry faces all aglow
Look up, ‘Good morning, dear Papa!
Mamma is coming home to-day.’
Or how it drifts and intershifts?
I woke, I saw the sunny beam,
I heard the shrieking of the swifts,
Then flung my curtain back. Below,
Two merry faces all aglow
Look up, ‘Good morning, dear Papa!
Mamma is coming home to-day.’
Grant us to taste,
Ye Mystic Powers,
Our happy hours,—
O how they haste!
Ye Mystic Powers,
Our happy hours,—
O how they haste!
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