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<p class="title"><SPAN id="IN_ANJOU"></SPAN>NOCTURNE: IN ANJOU</p>
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I dreamed of Sappho on a summer night.<br/>
Her nightingales were singing in the trees<br/>
Beside the castled river; and the wind<br/>
Fell like a woman's fingers on my cheek.<br/>
And then I slept and dreamed and marked no change;<br/>
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The night went on with me into my dream.<br/>
This only I remember, that I cried:<br/>
"O Sappho! ere I leave this paradise,<br/>
Sing me one song of those lost books of yours<br/>
For which we poets still go sorrowing;<br/>
That when I meet my fellows on the earth<br/>
I may rejoice them more than many pearls;"<br/>
And she, the sweetly smiling, answered me,<br/>
As one who dreams, "I have forgotten them."<br/></p>
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