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THE CURTAIN rose the play began	A
The limelight on the gay garbs shone	B
Yet carelessly I gazed upon	C
The painted players maid and man	A
As one with idle eyes who sees	D
The marble figures on a frieze	D
Long lark notes clear the first act close	E
So the soprano then a hush	F
The tenor tender as a thrush	F
Then loud and high the chorus rose	G
Till with a sudden rush and strong	H
It ended in a storm of song	H
	-
The curtain fell the music died	I
The lights grew bright revealing there	J
The flash of jewelled fingers fair	J
And wreaths of pearls on brows of pride	I
Then with a quick flushed cheek I turned	K
And into mine her dark eyes burned	K
	-
Such eyes but once a man may see	L
And seeing once his fancy dies	M
To thought of any other eyes	M
So shadow soft they seemed to be	L
Twin haunted lakes lit by the gleams	N
Of a mysterious moon of dreams	N
	-
Silk lashes veiled their liquid light	O
With such a shade as tall reeds fling	P
From the lake marge at sunsetting	P
Their darkness might have hid the night	O
Yet whoso saw their glance would say	Q
Night dreamt therein and saw the day	Q
	-
Long looked I at them wondering	P
What tender memories were hid	R
Beneath each blue veined lily lid	R
What hopes of joys the years would bring	P
What griefs In vain I might not guess	S
The secret of their silentness	S
	-
What of her face Her face meseems	S
Was such as painters see who muse	S
By moonlight in dim avenues	S
Yet cannot paint or as in dreams	S
Young poets see but when they try	T
To limn in verse are dumb so I	T
	-
Yet well I know that I have seen	U
That sweet face in the long ago	P
In a rose bower well I know	P
Laughing the singing leaves between	U
In that strange land of rose and rhyme	V
The land of Once upon a Time	V
	-
O unknown sweet so sweetly known	B
I know not what your name may be	L
Madonna is your name for me	L
Nor where your lines in life are thrown	B
But soul sees soul what is the rest	W
A passing phantom at the best	W
	-
Did your young bosom never glow	P
To love or burns your heart beneath	X
As burns the rosebud in its sheath	X
I neither know nor wish to know	P
I smell the rose upon the tree	L
Who will may pluck and wear for me	L
	-
May wear the rose and watch it die	T
And leaf by red leaf fade and fall	Y
Till there be nothing left at all	Y
Of its sweet loveliness but I	T
Love it so well I leave it free	L
The scent alone I take with me	L
	-
As one who visits sacred spots	S
Brings tokens back so I from you	Z
A glance a smile a rapture new	Z
And these are my forget me nots	S
I take from you but only these	S
Give all the rest to whom you please	S
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Sweet eyes your glance a light shall cast	A2
On me when dreaded ghosts arise	S
Of dead regrets with shrouded eyes	S
And phantoms of the perished past	A2
Old thoughts old hopes and old desire	B2
Gather around my lonely fire	B2
	-
Farewell In rhyme I kiss your hand	C2
Kiss not unsweet although unheard	D2
This is our secret say no word	D2
That I have been in Fairyland	C2
And seen for one brief moment s space	S
The Queen Titania face to face	S

Victor James Daley

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