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DREAM by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY

First Line: I SEE A SPIRIT
Last Line: BUT I, MYSELF,—ALAS!
Subject(s): DREAMS; OLD AGE; NIGHTMARES;

I SEE a spirit
Young and eager,
Beautiful, too, I think,
(Although I cannot see it clearly)
It is, by right of its own being,
One with all lovely, youthful things;
And they, its age-old kindred,
Welcome it
Saying, "Come, you too are one of us!"

This spirit is my own happy ghost—
But I, myself,—alas!



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