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The Spike: or, Victoria University College Review, October 1916

She Clothed Herself in Dreams

She Clothed Herself in Dreams.

She clothed herself in dreams all magical—
Did ever Princess in a tale of old
Show half so daintily and rare as she
A lily exquisity—all white and gold?

Or like a shadowed tree, mysterious;
Eyes dark as pools where fallen stars do sleep;
A dim white face and smile inscrutable,
And hair whose strands a subtle fragrance keep.

With little hands so white and slim, yet strong
To take a heart and break it—willed she so—
And moods when laughter bubbled in the throat
And love was answered with a teasing, "No."

She hung a silver mirror in her heart
And in her dreams paced slowly there and smiled;
While other shadows thronging, paid her court,
And all who looked upon her were beguiled.

* * * * *

A little smile strays on her unkissed lips.
So drab and dull she looks, and yet it seems
As though some pale joy lingers in her life—
Unloved she sits, and clothes herself in dreams.

—A.O.