Summer of Love

Chapter 54: THE POET’S EPITAPH

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A compact collection of lyrical poems that celebrates romantic devotion, natural imagery, and spiritual yearning, blending playful fairyland pieces, meditative prayers, and occasional urban portraits. The poet favors traditional verse forms such as villanelles and ballades and mixes classical and religious allusion with sensuous descriptions of gardens, moonlight, and birds. Short narrative ballads and elegiac tributes alternate with intimate love lyrics, producing a varied but unified mood of ardor, reverence, and pastoral charm.

THE POET’S EPITAPH

Dreams fade with morning light,

Never a morn for thee,

Dreamer of dreams, good-night.

Over our earthly sight

Shadows of woe must be;

Dreams fade with morning light.

Soldiers awake to fight—

Thou art from strife set free,

Dreamer of dreams, good-night.

Day breaketh, cruel, white,

Lovely the forms that flee;

Dreams fade with morning light.

Thine is the sure delight,

Sleep-visions still to see,

Dreamer of dreams, good-night.

Pity us from thy height,

Dawn-haunted slaves are we;

Dreams fade with morning light,

Dreamer of dreams, good-night.