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b'CG Rossetti read by Classic Poetry Aloud: Giving voice to the poetry of the past.\\nwww.classicpoetryaloud.com\\n\\n--------------------------------------------\\n\\nEcho\\nby Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 \\u2013 1894)\\n\\n Come to me in the silence of the night;\\n Come in the speaking silence of a dream;\\n Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright\\n As sunlight on a stream;\\n Come back in tears,\\n O memory, hope and love of finished years.\\n\\n O dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter-sweet,\\n Whose wakening should have been in Paradise,\\n Where souls brim-full of love abide and meet;\\n Where thirsting longing eyes\\n Watch the slow door\\n That opening, letting in, lets out no more.\\n\\n\\n Yet come to me in dreams, that I may live\\n My very life again though cold in death;\\n Come back to me in dreams, that I may give\\n Pulse for pulse, breath for breath:\\n Speak low, lean low,\\n As long ago, my love, how long ago.\\n\\n\\nFirst aired: 6 January 2009\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2009'