I saw you dancing at the Grand Rose ball
As ‘round that polished floor you swayed in tune,
So like a sundered blossom’s buoyant fall
You floated gently,  blown about the room.
Never had I seen such loveliness—
Such artful motion metered into song,
Yet in that moment when my gaze digressed,
The music ended and the bloom was gone.
I could not find you; though I searched in vain
Among those roses that gilt walls adorned
Whose painted smiles seemed more to mock my pain;
Their haunting perfume left my soul forlorn.
Perhaps my eyes betrayed me, so it seems…
But slumber closed, I dance with you in dreams.

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