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Title: The Garden of Dreams

Author: Madison J. Cawein

Release Date: March 20, 2010 [EBook #31712]

Language: English

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THE GARDEN OF DREAMS

MADISON CAWEIN

_Author of "Intimations of the Beautiful," "Undertones,"
and several other books of verse_

LOUISVILLE
JOHN P MORTON & COMPANY
MDCCCXCVI

COPYRIGHT, 1896,
JOHN P. MORTON & COMPANY.

TO
MY BROTHERS.

_Not while I live may I forget
That garden which my spirit trod!
Where dreams were flowers, wild and wet,
And beautiful as God._

_Not while I breathe, awake adream,
Shall live again for me those hours,
When, in its mystery and gleam,
I met her 'mid the flowers._

_Eyes, talismanic heliotrope,
Beneath mesmeric lashes, where
The sorceries of love and hope
Had made a shining lair._

_And daydawn brows, whereover hung
The twilight of dark locks; and lips,
Whose beauty spoke the rose's tongue
Of fragrance-voweled drips._

_I will not tell of cheeks and chin,
That held me as sweet language holds;
Nor of the eloquence within
Her bosom's moony molds._

_Nor of her large limbs' languorous
Wind-grace, that glanced like starlight through
Her ardent robe's diaphanous
Web of the mist and dew._

_There is no star so pure and high
As was her look; no fragrance such
At her soft presence; and no sigh
Of music like her touch._

_Not while I live may I forget
That garden of dim dreams! where I
And Song within the spirit met,
Sweet Song, who passed me by._

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