DREAM faces bloom around your face
  Like flowers upon one stem;
The heart of many a vanished race
  Sighs as I look on them.
 

The sun rich face of Egypt glows,
  The eyes of Eire brood,
With whom the golden Cyprian shows
  In lovely sisterhood.
 

Your tree of life put forth these flowers
  In ages past away:
They had the love in other hours
  I give to you to-day.
 

One light their eyes have, as may shine
  One star on many a sea,
They look that tender love on mine
  That lights your glance on me.
 

They fade in you; their lips are fain
  To meet the old caress:
And all their love is mine again
  As lip to lip we press.

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Poet: George William Russell
Poem: 69. 69. The Faces of Memory
Volume: Collected Poems by A.E.
Year: Published/Written in 1913
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