Gray Eyes
Nora Hopper Chesson
1871 to 1906
Gray eyes and gold hair,
Who remembers you were fair,
When on middle earth you were
Gray Eyes?
You were half a fairy then:
Are you claimed of them again,
Now you've gone beyond my ken,
Gray Eyes?
Sailing over perilous seas,
Dreaming under rowan-trees;
Quiet heart and quiet hand,
Are you back in Fairyland,
Gray Eyes?
You were cold as winter snow
To the soul that sought to know,
Creed and whimsy old and new,
Heights and deeps and dreams of you,
Gray Eyes?
Are you kinder now my feet
Lose your track in lane and street,
For all time, O cold and sweet
Gray Eyes?
Do you wish that you could set
Me the lesson to forget
That our souls had ever met,
Gray Eyes?
Much I sowed and naught I reap,
Come and give me dreams to keep —
Be not as of 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 to me, as cold as snow —
For I loved you thus, you know,
Gray Eyes.
Nora Hopper Chesson's Gray Eyes
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