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First Line: Gates that I never entered, under the shadow of the trees
Last Line: The shadowy love that I lay at your portals, villa of dreams!
Subject(s): Houses


Gates that I never entered, under the shadow of trees,
Gates with the garden discreet behind the wall,
Is it here, O garden discreet, is it here after all,
Here and behind your gates,
That the love of my life awaits
In a golden sleep the dawn of my coming, under the trees?

Under the quiet of trees the garden sleeps in the sun,
Sleeps, and awaits one day a wakening hand;
Is it I, O garden discreet, is it I shall stand
One day at the gate, and claim
Your princess in my name?
For she sleeps and awaits the appointed coming, sleeps in the sun.

Gates that I never entered, gates of my villa of dreams,
Is there a princess at all that your shadows keep
For her lover, O garden discreet, in a golden sleep?
Ah, if behind your gates
Only a shadow awaits
The shadowy love that I lay at your portals, villa of dreams!





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