Come to me in the silence of the night;
Come in the speaking silence of a dream;
Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright
As sunlight on a stream;
Come back in tears,
O memory, hope, love of finished years.
O dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter sweet,
Whose wakening should have been in Paradise,
‘Come back’ continues the refrain. The ‘stream’ of the previous line is echoed in the ‘tears’. Water imagery is picked up later in ‘brimful’ in stanza two.
Echo