Gray Eyes
Nora Hopper Chesson
1871 to 1906
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Gray eyes and gold hair,
Who remembers you fair,
When on middle earth you were
Gray Eyes?
You were half a fairy then:
Are claimed of them again,
Now you've gone beyond ken,
Gray Eyes?
Sailing over perilous seas,
Dreaming under rowan-trees;
Quiet heart and quiet hand,
Are you back in Fairyland,
Gray Eyes?
You cold as winter snow
To the soul that to know,
Creed and whimsy old and new,
Heights and deeps and dreams of you,
Gray Eyes?
Are you kinder now my feet
Lose track in lane and street,
For all time, cold and sweet
Gray Eyes?
Do you that you could set
Me the lesson to
That our souls had ever met,
Gray Eyes?
Much I sowed and naught I reap,
Come and me dreams to keep —
Be not as old you were,
Cold as death, as void of care,
Gray Eyes?
Nay, but come without the change,
I should find the warm heart strange.
Come me, as cold as snow —
For I you thus, you know,
Gray Eyes.
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