Before You Came

Before you came

A word you said

Ran through my days

Like living flame.

It was not you-

It was a name

For loveliness . . .

And yet it drew

Your Self for me

So that I knew

Your mood, your smile,

All you must be.

Oh, long ago

I dreamed you so-

Subtle as flame,

And cold as frost,

And mine, and lost

Before you came.

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18 lines · 5 stanzas