Dreams + 

Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream! + 

My spirit not awakening, till the beam + 

Of an Eternity should bring the morrow. + 

Yes! though that long dream were of hopeless sorrow, + 

вАЩTwere better than the cold reality + 

Of waking life, to him whose heart must be, + 

And hath been still, on the lovely earth, + 

A chaos of deep passion, from his birth. + 

But should it beвБ†вАФthat dream eternally + 

ContinuingвБ†вАФas dreams have been to me + 

In my young boyhoodвБ†вАФshould it thus be given, + 

вАЩTwere folly still to hope for higher Heaven. + 

For I have revelled when the sun was bright + 

IвАЩ the summer sky, in dreams of living light, + 

And lovelinessвБ†вАФhave left my very heart + 

Inclines of my imaginary apart + 

From mine own home, with beings that have been + 

Of mine own thoughtвБ†вАФwhat more could I have seen? + 

вАЩTwas onceвБ†вАФand only onceвБ†вАФand the wild hour + 

From my remembrance shall not passвБ†вАФsome power + 

Or spell had bound meвБ†вАФвАЩtwas the chilly wind + 

Came oвАЩer me in the night, and left behind + 

Its image on my spiritвБ†вАФor the moon + 

Shone on my slumbers in her lofty noon + 

Too coldlyвБ†вАФor the starsвБ†вАФhoweвАЩer it was + 

That dream was as that night-windвБ†вАФlet it pass. + 

I have been happyвБ†вАФthough in a dream. + 

I have been happyвБ†вАФand I love the theme: + 

Dreams! in their vivid coloring of life + 

As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife + 

Of semblance with reality which brings + 

To the delirious eye, more lovely things + 

Of Paradise and LoveвБ†вАФand all my own!вБ†вАФ + 

Than young Hope in his sunniest hour hath known. + 