Alice Werner

“ O love! thine arms were about me then,
Thy warm tears called me to life again, —
But — O God! that I came alone! —
We dwell in peace, my beautiful one
And I, by the streams in the West, —
But oft through the mist of my dreams along
Rides Bannerman of the Dandenong,
With the blood-red rose on his breast. ”

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