Echo

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h4>ECHO.</h4> <p>Come to me in the silence of the night;<br/> Come in the speaking silence of a dream;<br/> Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright<br/> As sunlight on a stream;<br/> Come back in tears,<br/> O memory, hope, love of finished years.<br/> <br/> O dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter sweet,<br/> Whose wakening should have been in Paradise,<br/> Where souls brimful of love abide and meet;<br/> Where thirsting longing eyes<br/> Watch the slow door<br/> That opening, letting in, lets out no more.<br/> <br/> Yet come to me in dreams, that I may live<br/> My very life again though cold in death:<br/> Come back to me in dreams, that I may give<br/> Pulse for pulse, breath for breath:<br/> Speak low, lean low,<br/> As long ago, my love, how long ago!</p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />