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DREAM ENCONTERS by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN

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First Line: THE MEASURELESS HOUSES OF DREAMS
Last Line: AND ALL HEAVEN WITH ONE HEART.
Subject(s): DREAMS; NIGHTMARES;

THE measureless houses of dreams,
And the magic of hours within hours;
And those who pass by like clear streams,
Pass by us, on a journey not ours!
The eyes that we know and we fear,
As waters of Castaly clear,
That gaze that should once have been sweet,
Now a terror to meet!
-- Yet, both in one corridor narrowly led,
Those steps in another intensity tread;
There is space that convenes us, but holds us apart;
Sunlight and sunlight, distinctly combined,
As a wish with the wind
And all heaven with one heart.



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