COME to-night in a dream to-night, <br />Come as you used to do, <br />Come in the gown, in the gown of white, <br />Come in the ribbon of blue; <br />Come in the virgin's colours you wear, <br />Come through the dark and the dew, <br />Come with the scent of the night in your hair, <br />Come as you used to do. <br /> <br />Blue and white of your eyes and your face, <br />White of your gown and blue, <br />Will you not come from the happy place, <br />Come as you used to do? <br />Tears so many, so many tears <br />Where there were once so few-- <br />Can they not wash the gray of the years <br />From the white of your gown and blue?<br /><br />Edith Nesbit<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/invocation-ii/
