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A DREAM

In visions of the dark night

    I have dreamed of joy departed -- But a waking dreams of life and light

    Hath left me broken-hearted.

Ah! what is not a dream by day

    To him whose eyes are cast On things around him with a ray

    Turned back upon the past?

That holy dream -- that holy dream,

    While all the world were chiding, Hath cheered me as a lovely beam

    A lonely spirit guiding.

What though that light, thro' storm and night,

    So trembled from afar- What could there be more purely bright

    In Truths day-star ?

1827.

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