Friday, December 25, 2009

Dream Cycle - A Dream

Below is the text for A Dream by Edgar Allen Poe.  The third song in my Dream Cycle.

A Dream
by Edgar Allen Poe

In visions of the dark night
I have dreamed of joy departed;
But a waking dream 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 Truth’s day-star?

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