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To: gypsy who wrote (378)9/21/1998 7:17:00 PM
From: Thomas C. White  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 13018
 
In the old park, deserted in the frost,
A while ago two shapes came drifting past.

Their eyes have died, their lips become so weak
That you can hardly hear a word they speak.

In the old park, deserted in the frost,
A ghost was reminiscing to a ghost.

--Can you recall our ecstasy of long ago?
--Why stir the memory? What do you want to know?

--Does your heart beat at just my name, as ever?
--Do you still see my spirit in your dreams? --No. Never.

--O lovely days of speechless happiness
When our mouths met! --Speechless? Perhaps it was.

--How blue the sky was and what hopes we had!
--Hope ran away to the black sky, defeated.

So they walk on in the self-seeding grass
With only night to hear them as they pass.

~Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896) (Trans. Alistair Elliot)~