Dreamers and Other Poems

<p><SPAN name="GOOD-BYE_PIERRETTE" id="GOOD-BYE_PIERRETTE"></SPAN>GOOD-BYE, PIERRETTE</p> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Good-bye, Pierrette. The new moon waits</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Like some shy maiden at the gates</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Of rose and pearl, to watch us stand</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">This little moment, hand in hand&mdash;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Nor one red rose its watch abates.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">The low wind through your garden prates</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Of one this twilight desolates.</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Ah, was it this your roses planned?</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Good-bye, Pierrette.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Oh, merriest of little mates,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">No sadder lover hesitates</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Beneath this moon in any land;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Nor any roses, watchful, bland,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Look on a sadder jest of Fate's.</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Good-bye, Pierrette.</span><br/> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />