Those lips once more to my lips; those sweet eyes,

Back to where once they dreamed so near to mine.—

I know that not again on Earth shall cling

Those fair white arms, and not till all Time dies

Shall these hands in her loosened hair entwine.

There is no might can give back to the Spring

The lowliest flower dead under summer skies.

Yet thou can’st tell me wandering by what stream

And in what fields of night her white feet tread.

Have I not wandered, Love, in many a dream?