The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see
The wantonest singing birds,
Are lips - and all thy melody
Of lip-begotten words -
Thine eyes, in Heaven of heart enshrined
Then desolately fall,
O God! on my funereal mind
Like starlight on a pall -
Thy heart - thy heart! - I wake and sigh,
And sleep to dream till day
Of the truth that gold can never buy -
Of the baubles that it may.
1829.
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