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JE Flecker read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\n\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\n\n---------------------------------------------\n\nThe Sentimentalist\nby James Elroy Flecker (1884 \u2013 1915)\n\nThere lies a photograph of you\n Deep in a box of broken things.\nThis was the face I loved and knew\n Five years ago, when life had wings;\n\nFive years ago, when through a town\n Of bright and soft and shadowy bowers\nWe walked and talked and trailed our gown\n Regardless of the cinctured hours.\n\nThe precepts that we held I kept;\n Proudly my ways with you I went:\nWe lived our dreams while others slept,\n And did not shrink from sentiment.\n\nNow I go East and you stay West\n And when between us Europe lies\nI shall forget what I loved best\n Away from lips and hands and eyes.\n\nBut we were Gods then: we were they\n Who laughed at fools, believed in friends,\nAnd drank to all that golden day\n Before us, which this poem ends.\n\nFirst aired: 22 August 2008\n\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\n\nReading \xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2008