<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="" class="head">The Resurrection of a Dream</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">'TWAS buried deep:</p><p class="line">I did not weep;</p><p class="line">I had forgot.</p><p class="line">But Love did not forget to keep</p><p class="line">What Love had wrought;</p><p class="line">And when <em>you</em> spake,--</p><p class="line">Wan, half-awake,</p><p class="line">Dim as a daylight flame,</p><p class="line">Up from my Memory's oubliette, the old Dream softly came.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">I cried, "O shrunken form!</p><p class="line">O wrinkled mummy face!</p><p class="line">Once thou wert rosy-warm,</p><p class="line">And fair, and full of grace;</p><p class="line">Now art a thing to gibe at in the sun,</p><p class="line">To mock and shun,</p><p class="line">Go back and dream in thy cold dwelling-place,</p><p class="line">Go back and sleep,</p><p class="line">Down in thy dungeon deep!</p><p class="line">"Go back!" I cried, "for all my dreams are done!"</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Sheeted in shame,</p><p class="line">With chin-clothes of despair,</p><p class="line">Shambling along it came,</p><p class="line">All tottering and lame,</p><p class="line">Up to the upper air;</p><p class="line">And, as a soul that perishes with drouth</p><p class="line">Might stoop to drink</p><p class="line">At a fountain's brink</p><p class="line">With famished mouth,</p><p class="line">So knelt and drank it of your beauty there.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">--O wonder!--as it gazed it grew</p><p class="line">Like a faint rose refreshed with dew</p><p class="line">Most sweet and fresh,</p><p class="line">Spirit and flesh,</p><p class="line">With leaping heart, and eyes of blue;</p><p class="line">And in its mouth, and brow, and hair,</p><p class="line"><em>Your</em> mouth, and brow, and hair, I knew;</p><p class="line">And suddenly I was aware</p><p class="line">That ye were one, not two:</p><p class="line">You were the Dream of all things fair,</p><p class="line">You were my Dream, my Dream was you;</p><p class="line">You were the answer to my prayers,</p><p class="line">You were my Dream of Love come true.</p></div></body></html> · Great War