<h3> <SPAN name="souvenir"></SPAN> Souvenir<br/> </h3>
<p>A vanished house that for an hour I knew<br/>
By some forgotten chance when I was young<br/>
Had once a glimmering window overhung<br/>
With honeysuckle wet with evening dew.<br/>
Along the path tall dusky dahlias grew,<br/>
And shadowy hydrangeas reached and swung<br/>
Ferociously; and over me, among<br/>
The moths and mysteries, a blurred bat flew.<br/></p>
<p>Somewhere within there were dim presences<br/>
Of days that hovered and of years gone by.<br/>
I waited, and between their silences<br/>
There was an evanescent faded noise;<br/>
And though a child, I knew it was the voice<br/>
Of one whose occupation was to die.<br/></p>
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