Dream Girl

Carl Sandburg

1878 to 1967

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You will come one day in a waver of love, 
Tender as dew, impetuous as rain,
The tan of the sun will be on your skin,
The purr of the breeze in your murmuring speech, 
You will pose with a hill-flower grace 

You will come, with your slim, expressive arms, 
A poise of the head no sculptor has caught 
And nuances spoken with shoulder and neck, 
Your face in a pass-and-repass of moods
As many as skies in delicate change 
Of cloud and blue and flimmering sun 

Yet, 
You may not come, O girl of a dream,
We may but pass as the world goes by 
And take from a look of eyes into eyes, 
A film of hope and a memoried day