id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 45467 Verhaeren, Emile The Evening Hours .txt text/plain 4149 369 97 Tender flowers, light as the sea's foam, Tender flowers, light as the sea's foam, So shall our love return once more Our eyes were franker and our hearts more sweet Still I love with all my heart The last light dwells upon your eyes and brow But to-day, with leaf and flower dead, The flowers of their life, they love them faded, Oh, turn on me your eyes of light, for I desire Oh the dear tenderness of sinking day! Our hearts once burned in joyous days Our hearts once burned in joyous days And the flowers of my eyes, pale yet bold, To end thus in your eyes my lovely human life. When you shall close these eyes of mine to light, When you shall close these eyes of mine to light, Oh kiss them long--for all that love afire And know that I shall go away with heart ./cache/45467.txt ./txt/45467.txt