DREAM faces bloom around your face <br />Like flowers upon one stem; <br />The heart of many a vanished race <br />Sighs as I look on them. <br /> <br /> <br />The sun rich face of Egypt glows, <br />The eyes of Eire brood, <br />With whom the golden Cyprian shows <br />In lovely sisterhood. <br /> <br /> <br />Your tree of life put forth these flowers <br />In ages past away: <br />They had the love in other hours <br />I give to you to-day. <br /> <br /> <br />One light their eyes have, as may shine <br />One star on many a sea, <br />They look that tender love on mine <br />That lights your glance on me. <br /> <br /> <br />They fade in you; their lips are fain <br />To meet the old caress: <br />And all their love is mine again <br />As lip to lip we press<br /><br />George William Russell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-faces-of-memory/
