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DreamyGwendolyn B. Bennett

Fantasy

I sailed in my dreams to the Land of Night Where you were the dusk-eyed queen, And there in the pallor of moon-veiled light The loveliest things were seen ... A slim-necked peacock sauntered there In a garden of lavender hues, And you were strange with your purple hair As you sat in your amethyst chair With your feet in your hyacinth shoes. Oh, the moon gave a bluish light Through the trees in the land of dreams and night. I stood behind a bush of yellow-green And whistled a song to the dark-haired queen ...
DreamyGwendolyn B. Bennett

Your Songs

When first you sang a song to me With laughter shining from your eyes, You trolled your music liltingly With cadences of glad surprise. In after years I heard you croon In measures delicately slow Of trees turned silver by the moon And nocturnes sprites and lovers know. And now I cannot hear you sing, But love still holds your melody For silence is a sounding thing To one who listens hungrily.

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