As I remember the first fair touch Of those beautiful hands that I love so much, I seem to thrill as I then was thrilled, Kissing the glove that I found unfilled- When I met your gaze, and the queenly bow, As you said to me, laughingly, 'Keep it now! '... And dazed and alone in a dream I stand, Kissing this ghost of your beautiful hand. When first I loved, in the long ago, And held your hand as I told you so- Pressed and caressed it and gave it a kiss And said 'I could die for a hand like this! ' Little I dreamed love's fullness yet Had to ripen when eyes were wet And prayers were vain in their wild demands For one warm touch of your beautiful hands....