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Dream faces bloom around your face / Like flowers upon one stem; / The heart of many a vanished race / Sighs as I look on them.
The sun rich face of Egypt glows, / The eyes of Eire brood, / With whom the golden Cyprian shows / In lovely sisterhood.
Your tree put forth these phantom flowers / In ages past away: / They had the love in other hours / I give to you to-day.
One light their eyes have, as may shine / One star on many a sea, / They look that tender love on mine / That lights your glance on me.
They fade in you; their lips are fain / To meet the old caress: / And all their love is mine again / As lip to lip we press.