Dream Tapestries
(1)HYACINTH
HYACINTHdreams in the arbour ...Just a crumpled mass of gray ...Soft ashen hair and colourless skin,Small, delicate hands blue-veined and thin ...Hyacinth dreams in the arbourAnd who shall sayWhat Hyacinth dreams to-day?Hyacinth dreams in the arbourAnd the stealthy pussy-cat creepsTo her silken lap in the soft green gloom.Room for the pussy-cat, Hyacinth ... room!Hyacinth dreams, in the arbour,Of Life ... that steals and leapsLike a panther out of the shadows ...Hyacinth sleeps.Hyacinth! Hyacinth! Open your eyes!Your blue blue eyes like the Grecian seas!Or Life will spring on your silken kneesAnd waken you with a wild surpriseWhere you dream ... just a crumpled mass of gray.Hyacinth dreams in the arbour.Ah who shall sayWhat Hyacinth dreams to-day?
HYACINTHdreams in the arbour ...Just a crumpled mass of gray ...Soft ashen hair and colourless skin,Small, delicate hands blue-veined and thin ...Hyacinth dreams in the arbourAnd who shall sayWhat Hyacinth dreams to-day?Hyacinth dreams in the arbourAnd the stealthy pussy-cat creepsTo her silken lap in the soft green gloom.Room for the pussy-cat, Hyacinth ... room!Hyacinth dreams, in the arbour,Of Life ... that steals and leapsLike a panther out of the shadows ...Hyacinth sleeps.Hyacinth! Hyacinth! Open your eyes!Your blue blue eyes like the Grecian seas!Or Life will spring on your silken kneesAnd waken you with a wild surpriseWhere you dream ... just a crumpled mass of gray.Hyacinth dreams in the arbour.Ah who shall sayWhat Hyacinth dreams to-day?
HYACINTHdreams in the arbour ...Just a crumpled mass of gray ...Soft ashen hair and colourless skin,Small, delicate hands blue-veined and thin ...Hyacinth dreams in the arbourAnd who shall sayWhat Hyacinth dreams to-day?
HYACINTHdreams in the arbour ...
Just a crumpled mass of gray ...
Soft ashen hair and colourless skin,
Small, delicate hands blue-veined and thin ...
Hyacinth dreams in the arbour
And who shall say
What Hyacinth dreams to-day?
Hyacinth dreams in the arbourAnd the stealthy pussy-cat creepsTo her silken lap in the soft green gloom.Room for the pussy-cat, Hyacinth ... room!Hyacinth dreams, in the arbour,Of Life ... that steals and leapsLike a panther out of the shadows ...Hyacinth sleeps.
Hyacinth dreams in the arbour
And the stealthy pussy-cat creeps
To her silken lap in the soft green gloom.
Room for the pussy-cat, Hyacinth ... room!
Hyacinth dreams, in the arbour,
Of Life ... that steals and leaps
Like a panther out of the shadows ...
Hyacinth sleeps.
Hyacinth! Hyacinth! Open your eyes!Your blue blue eyes like the Grecian seas!Or Life will spring on your silken kneesAnd waken you with a wild surpriseWhere you dream ... just a crumpled mass of gray.Hyacinth dreams in the arbour.Ah who shall sayWhat Hyacinth dreams to-day?
Hyacinth! Hyacinth! Open your eyes!
Your blue blue eyes like the Grecian seas!
Or Life will spring on your silken knees
And waken you with a wild surprise
Where you dream ... just a crumpled mass of gray.
Hyacinth dreams in the arbour.
Ah who shall say
What Hyacinth dreams to-day?