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<p>The Inn of Dreams</p>
<p> Sweet Laughter! Sweet Delight!<br/>
My heart is like a lighted Inn that waits<br/>
Your swift approach . . . and at the open gates<br/>
White Beauty stands and listens like a flower.<br/>
She has been dreaming of you in the night,<br/>
O fairy Princes; and her eyes are bright.<br/>
Spur your fleet horses, this is Beauty's hour!<br/>
Even as when a golden flame up-curled<br/>
Quivers and flickers out in a dark place,<br/>
So is it with the flame of Beauty's face—<br/>
That torch! that rose! that wonder of the world!<br/>
And Love shall weep to see—when he rides by<br/>
Years hence (the time shall seem as a bird's flight)—<br/>
A lonely Inn beneath a winter sky.<br/>
Come now, sweet friends! before the summer die.<br/>
Sweet Laughter! Sweet Delight!</p>
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