id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 3628 Wilcox, Ella Wheeler The Kingdom of Love .txt text/plain 19275 1867 99 And I saw from a bower a face like a flower But my hopes died away like the last gleams of day, She thought of the old home far away; An old man sits dreaming to-night, The long day passed, the dark night came; "God knows," the man said afterward, God knows I have loved you dearly, To know that while the world grew old 'Tis long good-nights in tender lights, As a beautiful woman is fair to man's sight-And but in dreams love-kisses burn the lip,-So does my heart, which thought it loved of yore, Of dreams of love that came before I KNEW, I know man likes to think a woman clay, My human heart pulsed blood by night and day, All the beauty of that other love life seems; Where we loved before God fashioned night or day. She said, "I know the way. ./cache/3628.txt ./txt/3628.txt