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From: mf@cornell.UUCP (Michael Fingerhut)
Newsgroups: net.poems
Subject: Echo
Message-ID: <448@cornell.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Aug-84 09:04:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: cornell.448
Posted: Thu Aug 23 09:04:19 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Aug-84 07:14:23 EDT
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept.
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                  Echo

Come to me in the silence of the night;
  Come to me in the speaking silence of a dream:
Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright
  As sunlight on a stream;
    Come back in tears,
O memory, hope, love of finished years.

Oh dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter sweet,
  Whose wakening should have been in Paradise,
Where souls brimfull of love abide and meet;
  Where thisting longing eyes
    Watch the slow door
That opening, letting in, lets out no more.

Yet come to me in dreams, that I may live
  My very life again though cold in death:
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give
  Pulse for pulse, breath for breath:
    Speak low, lean low,
As long ago, my love, how long ago!

			C. Rossetti