The Unconquered Air, and Other Poems (1912)/Cendrillon

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CENDRILLON

"Vous l'avez dit: je suis le rêve."

I am a dream,   A fairy gleam  Of rose and amethyst; A creature of the moonlight and the mist, Woven of stars that, meeting, silent kissed.  Think of me as a dream! I am a note of melody that woke Within your breast, and to your longing spoke:   A lonely strain   Of ecstasy and pain;  A hope that, glimpsed, must fade;  A form, illusion made, That, vanishing, shall come no more again!  Regret me not that I  Must like to music die!   The virgin rose, In blossoming, hastes to its fragrant close, And whatsoe'er this magic hour I seem, I am enchantment, only, and a dream,—  Love always is a dream!