A DREAM

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Edgar Allan 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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