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Arthur Henry Adams - The Pleiades
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LAST night I saw the Pleiades again,  
  Faint as a drift of steam  
    From some tall chimney-stack;  
And I remembered you as you were then:  
  Awoke dead worlds of dream,          
    And Time turned slowly back.  
  
I saw the Pleiades through branches bare,  
  And close to mine your face  
    Soft glowing in the dark;  
For Youth and Hope and Love and You were there          
  At our dear trysting-place  
    In that bleak London park.  
  
And as we kissed the Pleiades looked down  
  From their immeasurable  
    Aloofness in cold Space.          
Do you remember how a last leaf brown  
  Between us flickering fell  
    Soft on your upturned face?  
  
Last night I saw the Pleiades again,  
  Here in the alien South,          
    Where no leaves fade at all;  
And I remembered you as you were then,  
  And felt upon my mouth  
    Your leaf-light kisses fall!  
  
The Pleiades remember and look down          
  On me made old with grief,  
    Who then a young god stood,  
When you—now lost and trampled by the Town,  
  A lone wind-driven leaf,—  
    Were young and sweet and good!
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