Once in a dream (for once I dreamed of you) <br />We stood together in an open field; <br />Above our heads two swift-winged pigeons wheeled, <br />Sporting at ease and courting full in view. <br />When loftier still a broadening darkness flew, <br />Down-swooping, and a ravenous hawk revealed; <br />Too weak to fight, too fond to fly, they yield; <br />So farewell life and love and pleasures new. <br />Then as their plumes fell fluttering to the ground, <br />Their snow-white plumage flecked with crimson drops, <br />I wept, and thought I turned towards you to weep: <br />But you were gone; while rustling hedgerow tops <br />Bent in a wind which bore to me a sound <br />Of far-off piteous bleat of lambs and sheep.<br /><br />Christina Georgina Rossetti<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-dream-115/
