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Intro
In Visons of the dark night
I have dreamed of joy departed
But a waking dream of life and light
Has left me broken hearted
That dream--that holy dream
while all the world was chiding
has cheeded me as a lovely beam
a lonely spirit guiding
Ah what is not a deam by day
To him whose eyes are cast
on things around hom with a ray
turned back upon thw past?
Take this kiss upon the brow
and, in parting from you now
thus much let me avow
you are not wrong who deem
that my days have been a drem;
yet if hope has flown away
in a night or in a day
in a vision or in none,
is it therefore the less gone?
all that we see or seen
is but a dream within a dream.
what though that light, through storm and noght
so trembled from afar
what could there be more purely bright
in truth's day-star?
That holy dream---that holy dream
while all the world was chiding
has cheered me as a lovely beam
a lonely spirit guiding.