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First Line: Dear glass, before your silver pane [text reads backwards]
Last Line: That helen used you long ago!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Mirrors


Dear glass, before your silves pane
My lady used to tend her hair;
And yet I search your disc in vain
To find one shadow of her there.

I thought your magic, deep and bright,
Might still some dear reflection hold:
Some glint of eyes or shoulders white,
Some flash of gowns she worn of old.

Your polished round must still recall,
The laughting face, the neck like snow --
Remember, on your lonely wall,
That Helen used you long ago!





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