Poems (Van Vorst)/Les Revenants
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LES REVENANTS
My only light is candle-light From candles fitly set In sconces, dazzling. Long threads, half melting, cling To snowy candle-masts, and fret The straight, slim forms, and I shall sit Alone, until the Spirit stirs These lily lights (for they are conjurers). From the high corners, shadows flit Across the floor: and One shall bring Back all my soul has loved and missed. And the dim others fade when we have kissed. But one remains, and I am one with it.
My only light is candle-light From candles burning down Till each flame flickers into night. Is it the perfume slight From shadow hair and shadow gown
Unseals my long-locked senses? Or, Light touching hands and lips that fill For me the waste of time, caress until I live as I have lived before?
My only light shall be the candle's light, To summon shades and mysteries Until my solitary spirit sees Your shadow steal across the shining floor.