Inn of Dreams

<SPAN name="38"></SPAN> <br/> <br/> <p>The Photograph</p> <p>O Beauty, what is this?<br/> A shadow of your face . . .<br/> Where is the wild flower grace<br/> That Love is wont to kiss?</p> <p>Where is the bird that brings<br/> To your untroubled eyes<br/> The blue of fairy skies,<br/> The flash of fairy wings? . . .</p> <p>O wild bird of delight,<br/> That no white hand may hold,<br/> Or fairest cage of gold . . .<br/> For who would stay its flight?</p> <p>The song-bird of your voice<br/> Whose magic song Love hears,<br/> Trembling behind your tears,<br/> Trilling when you rejoice . . .</p> <p>O Beauty, what is this?<br/> The shadow of a rose . . .<br/> A little ghost that goes<br/> Oblivious of Love's kiss.</p> <p>Only a shadow . . . yet<br/> It may, in some dark hour<br/> Recall the living flower . . .<br/> If haply Love forget.</p> <br/> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />