Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy; and Other Poems by Richard Le Gallienne
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With dreamy hints of speech between;
Or, may be, flashing all intent At call of some stern argument, When the New Woman fain would be, Like the Old Male, her husband, free. The prose-man takes his mighty lyre And talks like music set on fire! The while the merry crowd slips by Glittering and glancing to the eye, All happy lovers on their way To make a golden end of day-- Ah! Café truly called _La Paix_! Or at the _pension_ I would be With Transatlantic maidens three, The same, I vow, who once of old Guarded with song the trees of gold. O Lady, lady, _Vis-à-Vis_, When shall I cease to think of thee, On whose fair head the Golden Fleece Too soon, too soon, returns to Greece-- Oh, why to Athens e'er depart? Come back, come back, and bring my heart! And she whose gentle silver grace, So wise of speech and kind of face, Whose every wise and witty word |
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