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HEROIC LOVE by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

First Line: WHEN OUR GLOWING DREAMS WERE DEAD
Last Line: "LOVE CAN NEVER BE TILL THEN."
Subject(s): DREAMS; HEROISM; HOPE; LOVE - LOSS OF; NIGHTMARES; HEROES; HEROINES; OPTIMISM;

WHEN our glowing dreams were dead,
Ruined our heroic piles,
Something in your dark eyes said:
"Think no more of love or smiles."

Something in me still would say,
"Though our dreamland palace goes,
I have seen how in decay
Still the wild rose clings and blows."

But your dark eyes willed it thus:
"Build our lofty dream again:
Let our palace rise o'er us:
Love can never be till then."



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