Reverie [Memories of childhood]

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Title:     Reverie [Memories of childhood]
Author: Walter De la Mare [More Titles by De la Mare]

Bring not bright candles, for his eyes
In twilight have sweet company;
Bring not bright candles, else they fly--
His phantoms fly--
Gazing aggrieved on thee!

Bring not bright candles, startle not
The phantoms of a vacant room,
Flocking above a child that dreams--
Deep, deep in dreams,--
Hid, in the gathering gloom!

Bring not bright candles to those eyes
That between earth and stars descry,
Lovelier for the shadows there,
Children of air,
Palaces in the sky!

[The end]
Walter De la Mare's poem: Reverie

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