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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409213" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>New Year's Eve</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The other night I had a dream, most clear <br>And comforting, complete<br>In every line, a crystal sphere,<br>And full of intimate and secret cheer. <br>Therefore I will repeat<br>That vision, dearest heart, to you,<br>As of a thing not feigned, but very true,<br>Yes, true as ever in my life befell;<br>And you, perhaps, can tell<br>Whether my dream was really sad or sweet. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>II </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The shadows flecked the elm-embowered street <br>I knew so well, long, long ago;<br>And on the pillared porch where Marguerite <br>Had sat with me, the moonlight lay like snow. <br>But she, my comrade and my friend of youth, <br>Most gaily wise,<br>Most innocently loved, --<br>She of the blue-grey eyes<br>That ever smiled and ever spoke the truth, --<br>From that familiar dwelling, where she moved <br>Like mirth incarnate in the years before,<br>Had gone into the hidden house of Death.<br>I thought the garden wore<br>White mourning for her blessed innocence, <br>And the syringa's breath<br>Came from the corner by the fence,<br>Where she had made her rustic seat,<br>With fragrance passionate, intense,<br>As if it breathed a sigh for Marguerite.<br>My heart was heavy with a sense<br>Of something good forever gone. I sought <br>Vainly for some consoling thought,<br>Some comfortable word that I could say<br>To the sad father, whom I visited again<br>For the first time since she had gone away.<br>The bell rang shrill and lonely, -- then<br>The door was opened, and I sent my name<br>To him, -- but ah! 't was Marguerite who came! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There in the dear old dusky room she stood <br>Beneath the lamp, just as she used to stand,<br>In tender mocking mood.<br>"You did not ask for me," she said,<br>"And so I will not let you take my hand; <br>"But I must hear what secret talk you planned <br>"With father. Come, my friend, be good, <br>"And tell me your affairs of state:<br>"Why you have stayed away and made me wait <br>"So long. Sit down beside me here, --<br>"And, do you know, it seemed a year<br>"Since we have talked together, -- why so late?" </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Amazed, incredulous, confused with joy<br>I hardly dared to show,<br>And stammering like a boy,<br>I took the place she showed me at her side; <br>And then the talk flowed on with brimming tide <br>Through the still night,<br>While she with influence light<br>Controlled it, as the moon the flood.<br>She knew where I had been, what I had done, <br>What work was planned, and what begun;<br>My troubles, failures, fears she understood, <br>And touched them with a heart so kind,<br>That every care was melted from my mind,<br>And every hope grew bright,<br>And life seemed moving on to happy ends. <br>(Ah, what self-beggared fool was he <br>That said a woman cannot be <br>The very best of friends?)<br>Then there were memories of old times, <br>Recalled with many a gentle jest;<br>And at the last she brought the book of rhymes <br>We made together, trying to translate<br>The Songs of Heine (hers were always best). <br>"Now come," she said, <br>"To-night we will collaborate <br>"Again; I'll put you to the test. <br>"Here's one I never found the way to do, --<br>"The simplest are the hardest ones, you know, -- <br>"I give this song to you." <br>And then she read:<br>Mein kind, wir waren Kinder,<br>Zei Kinder, jung und froh. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">* * * * * * * * * * </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But all the while a silent question stirred <br>Within me, though I dared not speak the word: <br>"Is it herself, and is she truly here,<br>"And was I dreaming when I heard<br>"That she was dead last year?<br>"Or was it true, and is she but a shade<br>"Who brings a fleeting joy to eye and ear, <br>"Cold though so kind, and will she gently fade <br>"When her sweet ghostly part is played<br>"And the light-curtain falls at dawn of day?"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But while my heart was troubled by this fear <br>So deeply that I could not speak it out,<br>Lest all my happiness should disappear,<br>I thought me of a cunning way<br>To hide the question and dissolve the doubt. <br>"Will you not give me now your hand,<br>"Dear Marguerite," I asked, "to touch and hold, <br>"That by this token I may understand<br>"You are the same true friend you were of old?" <br>She answered with a smile so bright and calm <br>It seemed as if I saw new stars arise<br>In the deep heaven of her eyes;<br>And smiling so, she laid her palm<br>In mine. Dear God, it was not cold<br>But warm with vital heat!<br>"You live!" I cried, "you live, dear Marguerite!" <br>Then I awoke; but strangely comforted, <br>Although I knew again that she was dead. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>III </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes, there's the dream! And was it sweet or sad?<br>Dear mistress of my waking and my sleep, <br>Present reward of all my heart's desire, <br>Watching with me beside the winter fire, <br>Interpret now this vision that I had.<br>But while you read the meaning, let me keep <br>The touch of you: for the Old Year with storm <br>Is passing through the midnight, and doth shake <br>The corners of the house, -- man oh! my heart would break<br>Unless both dreaming and awake<br>My hand could feel your hand was warm, warm, warm!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Van+Dyke">Henry Van Dyke</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409213" data-title="New Year's Eve de Henry Van Dyke" data-description="I The other night I had a dream, most clear And comforting, complete In every line, a crystal sphere, And full of intimate and secret cheer. 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