With the sudden vision that made us one with the night.

We loved in infinite spaces, forgetting here

The breasts that were lit with life and the lips so near;

Till the wizard willows waved in the wind and drew

Me away from the fulness of love and down to you.

Our love was so vast that it filled the heavens up:

But the soft white form I held was an empty cup,

When the willows called me back to earth with their sigh,

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And we moved as shades through the deep that was you and I.

A CALL OF THE SIDHE

Tarry thou yet, late lingerer in the twilight's glory:

Gay are the hills with song: earth's faery children leave

More dim abodes to roam the primrose-hearted eve,

Opening their glimmering lips to breathe some wondrous story.

Hush, not a whisper! Let your heart alone go dreaming.

Dream unto dream may pass: deep in the heart alone

Murmurs the Mighty One his solemn undertone.

Canst thou not see adown the silver cloudland streaming

Rivers of faery light, dewdrop on dewdrop falling,

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