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I dreamt last night and in that dream	A
My boyhood's heart was mine again	B
These latter years did nothing seem	A
With all their mingled joy and pain	C
Their thousand deeds of good and ill	D
Their hopes which time did not fulfil	D
Their glorious moments of success	E
Their love that closed in bitterness	F
Their hate that grew with growing strength	G
Their darling projects dropped at length	G
And higher aims that still prevail	D
For I must perish ere they fail	D
That crowning object of my life	H
The end of all my toil and strife	H
Source of my virtues and my crimes	I
For which I've toiled and striven in vain	C
But if I fail a thousand times	I
Still I will toil and strive again	B
Yet even this was then forgot	J
My present heart and soul were not	J
All the rough lessons life has taught	K
That are become a part of me	L
A moment's sleep to nothing brought	K
And made me what I used to be	L
And I was roaming light and gay	M
Upon a breezy sunny day	M
A bold and careless youth	N
No guilty stain was on my mind	O
And if not over soft or kind	O
My heart was full of truth	N
It was a well known mountain scene	P
Wild steeps with rugged glens between	P
I should have thirsted to explore	Q
Had I not trod them oft before	Q
A younger boy was with me there	R
His hand upon my shoulder leant	S
His heart like mine was free from care	R
His breath with sportive toil was spent	T
For my rough pastimes he would share	R
And equal dangers loved to dare	R
Though seldom I would care to vie	U
In learning's keen pursuit with him	V
I loved free air and open sky	U
Better than books and tutors grim	V
And we had wandered far that day	M
O'er that forbidden ground away	M
Ground to our rebel feet how dear	W
Danger and freedom both were there	R
Had climbed the steep and coursed the dale	D
Until his strength began to fail	D
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He bade me pause and breathe a while	D
But spoke it with a happy smile	D
	-
His lips were parted to inhale	D
The breeze that swept the ferny dale	D
And chased the clouds across the sky	U
And waved his locks in passing by	U
And fanned my cheek so real did seem	A
This strange untrue but truthlike dream	A
And as we stood I laughed to see	L
His fair young cheek so brightly glow	D
He turned his sparkling eyes to me	L
With looks no painter's art could show	D
Nor words portray but earnest mirth	X
And truthful love I there descried	M
And while I thought upon his worth	X
My bosom glowed with joy and pride	M
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I could have kissed his forehead fair	R
I could nave clasped him to my heart	M
But tenderness with me was rare	R
And I must take a rougher part	M
I seized him in my boisterous mirth	X
I bore him struggling to the earth	X
And grappling strength for strength we strove	Y
He half in wrath I all for love	Z
But I gave o'er the strife at length	G
Ashamed of my superior strength	G
The rather that I marked his eye	U
Kindle as if a change were nigh	U
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We paused to breathe a little space	A2
Reclining on the heather brae	M
But still I gazed upon his face	A2
To watch the shadow pass away	M
I grasped his hand and it was fled	M
A smile a laugh and all was well	D
Upon my breast he leant his head	M
And into graver talk we fell	D
More serious yet so blest did seem	A
That calm communion then	B
That when I found it but a dream	A
I longed to sleep again	B
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At first remembrance slowly woke	B2
Surprise regret successive rose	C2
That love's strong cords should thus be broke	B2
And dearest friends turn deadliest foes	C2
Then like a cold o'erwhelming flood	M
Upon my soul it burst	M
This heart had thirsted for his blood	M
This hand allayed that thirst	M
These eyes had watched without a tear	R
His dying agony	L
These ears unmoved had heard his prayer	R
This tongue had cursed him suffering there	R
And mocked him bitterly	L
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Unwonted weakness o'er me crept	M
I sighed nay weaker still I wept	M
Wept like a woman o'er the deed	M
I had been proud to do	M
As I had made his bosom bleed	M
My own was bleeding too	M
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Back foolish tears the man I slew	M
Was not the boy I cherished so	D
And that young arm that clasped the friend	M
Was not the same that stabbed the foe	D
By time and adverse thoughts estranged	M
And wrongs and vengeance both were changed	M
Repentance now were worse that vain	C
Time's current cannot backward run	D2
And be the action wrong or right	M
It is for ever done	D2
Then reap the fruits I've said his death	E2
Should be my country's gain	C
If not then I have spent my breath	E2
And spilt his blood in vain	C
And I have laboured hard and long	F2
But little good obtained	M
My foes are many yet and strong	F2
Not half the battle's gained	M
For still the greater deeds I've done	D2
The more I have to do	M
The faster I can journey on	G2
The farther I must go	D
If Fortune favoured for a while	D
I could not rest beneath her smile	D
Nor triumph in success	E
When I have gained one river's shore	Q
A wilder torrent stretched before	Q
Defies me with its deafening roar	Q
And onward I must press	E
And much I doubt this work of strife	H
In blood and death begun	D2
Will call for many a victim more	Q
Before the cause is won	D2
Well my own life I'd freely give	H2
Ere I would fail in my design	I2
The cause must prosper if I live	J2
And I will die if it decline	I2
Advanced this far I'll not recede	M
Whether to vanquish or to bleed	M
Onward unchecked I must proceed	M
Be Death or Victory mine	I2
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Anne Bronta

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