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EGLANTINE by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: SWEET EGLANTINE, THIS BREATH OF THINE
Last Line: A FRAGRANT DREAM.

Sweet Eglantine, this breath of thine --
Mute eloquence of what was mine --
Awakes a memory divine,
A vanished gleam
Of Joy, that in my heart today,
Amid the folding shadows gray,
Doth lie, as erst in light it lay,
A fragrant dream.



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