Love in September
Nora Hopper Chesson
1871 to 1906
Track 1
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And heard the minutes hurrying by.
Above us for a lantern hung.
Hoarding its sweets up for the rain;
No bat, or buzzing chafer came
As flash and peal, as bee and rose.
The happy silences to break.
We clung together, you and I,
Heart against heart beat heavily,
We kissed, and to the lighted room
Came, carrying with us like perfume
But flash and peal and cloud were not.
About us in the gloaming gray,
And one great star and only one
The memory of the twilight sweet
The seed of your own thought was sown.
Your eyes through twilight sought for mine,
Fuller of fire than any sun;
While all the night beat like a heart
In shining eyes and laggard feet.
And watched us while the minutes spun
The garden walls seemed far away,
Webs of delight not yet undone,
Delicate dreams, and for our sake
Our lips together met and clung —
About us as our lips clung close
The scent of flowering mint was blown
As lovely as the rose's name,
Twilight and scent for us begot
My hand in yours so closely lay,
My lips drank love from yours like wine.
I felt your pulse beat like my own;
The garden lay about us twain
While our lips, kissing, would not part;
I breathed your breath, and in my brain
Our love stood beautiful and young
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