Dreamers and Other Poems

<p><SPAN name="THE_RETURNING" id="THE_RETURNING"></SPAN>THE RETURNING</p> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">I said I will go back again where we</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Were glad together. But my dear, my dear,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Where are the roses we were wont to see</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">The songs we used to hear?</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">I said the hearth-flame that once burned for us</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">I will renew with all the cheer of old,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Yet here within the circle luminous</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Our very hearts are cold.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">That was a barren garden that we found,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">This was an empty house we came to meet,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">We, who for all our longing, hear no sound</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Of Love's returning feet.</span><br/> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />