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