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From 'Dream-Love' by Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894) |
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Young lovers laying by the stream |
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Cool skin glistens in the light |
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White lambs come grazing, white doves float through their dreams |
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And all around the sun is white |
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Soft moss a pillow for the softer cheek |
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Broad leaves cast shadows on bedroom eyes |
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There lips are parted, oh! But barely speak |
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There twilight lingers longer in the skies |
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Young lovers dreaming 'til summer days are gone |
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Dreaming and dancing away to perfect bliss |
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They move in beauty, two hearts adrift as one |
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Kissing and kissing 'til the kiss of morning sun has come |
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Young lovers drifting off to death |
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Cool shadows deepen 'cross the face |
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So ends the summer with warm delicious breath |
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When autumn comes to take its place |
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Draw close the curtains of evergreen |
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Age will not touch them with fingers grey |
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Here the first violets will bud unseen |
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A lonely dove returns to stay |
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Young lovers sleeping |
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Young lovers sleeping |
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Young lovers dreaming |
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Young lovers drowsing |
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Young lovers drifting |
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Young lovers drowning |