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Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918.

50. Heroic Love

WHEN our glowing dreams were dead,

Ruined our heroic piles,

Something in your dark eyes said:

“Think no more of love or smiles.”

Something in me still would say,

“Though our dreamland palace goes,

I have seen how in decay

Still the wild rose clings and blows.”

But your dark eyes willed it thus:

“Build our lofty dream again:

Let our palace rise o’er us:

Love can never be till then.”