For Lillian

She was so dear, so fair. Her memory stays, Even her dying robs me not of this, That I have walked with her in mortal ways Whose tender beauty now immortal is. There are sweet flowers that bloom in ways forlorn And sad sweet eyes whose beauty is a flower Blown in the night to which there is no morn, Dream-born and dying in its dewy bower; And she was such a flower, her sweet eyes such; The secret hours that only the heart knows Thrill with the glamour of her tone and touch Like music that is sweetest at the close, Falling to death as falls the fairest thing Beyond the power of love's recovering.