The Faces of Memory
DREAM faces bloom around your face	
Like flowers upon one stem;	
The heart of many a vanished race	
Sighs as I look on them.	

The sun rich face of Egypt glows,	
The eyes of Eire brood,	
With whom the golden Cyprian shows	
In lovely sisterhood.	

Your tree of life put forth these flowers	
In ages past away:	
They had the love in other hours	
I give to you to-day.	

One light their eyes have, as may shine	
One star on many a sea,	
They look that tender love on mine	
That lights your glance on me.	

They fade in you; their lips are fain	
To meet the old caress:	
And all their love is mine again	
As lip to lip we press.	