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Part I	A
HOW wonderful are dreams If they but be	B
As some have said the thin disjoining shades	C
Of thoughts or feelings long foregone or late	D
All interweaving set in ghostly act	E
And strange procession fair grotesque or grim	F
By mimic fancy wonderful no less	G
Are they though this be true and wondrous more	H
Is she who in the dark and stript of sense	I
Can wield such sovereignty the Queen of Art	J
For what a cunning painter is she then	K
Who hurriedly embodying from the waste	L
Of things memorial littering life s dim floor	H
The forms and features manifold and quaint	M
That crowd the timeless vistas of a dream	N
Fails in no stroke but breathes Pygmalion like	O
A soul of motion into all her work	P
And doth full oft in magic mood inspire	Q
Her phantom creatures with more eloquent tones	R
Than ever broke upon a waking ear	S
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But are they more True glimpses oft though vague	T
Over that far unnavigable sea	B
Of mystic being where the impatient soul	U
Is sometimes wont to stray and roam at large	V
No answer comes Yet are they wonderful	W
However we may rank them in our lore	H
And worthy some fond record are these dreams	X
That with so capable a wand can bring	Y
Back to the faded heart the rosy flush	Z
And sweetness of a long fled love or touch	A2
The eyes of an old enmity with tears	B2
Of a yet older friendship or restore	H
A world lost mate or reunite in joy	C2
The living and the dead can when so wills	D2
Their wand s weird wielder whatsoe er it be	B
Lift up the fallen fallen however low	E2
Give youth unto the worn enrich the poor	F2
Build in the future higher than the hope	G2
Of power when boldest ever dared to soar	H
Annul the bars of space the dens of time	H2
Giving the rigid and cold clanking chain	I2
Which force that grey iniquity hath clenched	J2
About its captive to relent yea stretch	K2
Forth into fairy land or melt like wax	L2
In that fierce life whose spirit lightens wide	M2
Round freedom seated on her mountain throne	N2
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But not thus always are our dreams benign	O2
Oft are they miscreations gloomier worlds	P2
Crowded tempestuously with wrongs and fears	Q2
More ghastly than the actual ever knew	R2
And rent with racking noises such as should	S2
Go thundering only through the wastes of hell	T2
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Yes wonderful are dreams and I have known	N2
Many most wild and strange And once long since	U2
As in the death like mystery of sleep	V2
My body lay impalled my soul arose	W2
And journeyed outward in a wondrous dream	N
In the mid hour of a dark night methought	S2
I roamed the margin of a waveless lake	X2
That in the knotted forehead of the land	S2
Deep sunken like a huge Cyclopean eye	A
Lidless and void of speculation stared	S2
Glassily up for ever sleepless up	Y2
At the wide vault of heaven and vaguely came	Z2
Into my mind a mystic consciousness	A3
That over against me on the farther shore	H
Which yet I might not see there stood a tower	B3
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The darkness darkened until overhead	S2
Solidly black the starless heaven domed	S2
And earth was one wide blot when as I looked	S2
A light swung blazing from the tower as yet	S2
Prophesied only in my inner thought	S2
And brought at once its rounded structure forth	C3
Massive and tall out of the mighty gloom	D3
On the broad lake that streaming radiance fell	T2
Through the lit fluid like a shaft of fire	B3
Burning its sullen depths with one red blaze	E3
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Long at that wild light was I gazing held	S2
In speechless wonder till I thence could feel	F3
A strange and thrillingly attractive power	B3
My bodily weight seemed witched away aloft	S2
I mounted poised within the passive air	G3
Then felt I through my veins a branching warmth	H3
The herald of some yet unseen content	S2
The nearness of some yet inaudible joy	C2
As if some spell of golden destiny	B
Lifted me onwards to the fateful tower	B3
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Part II	A
High up the tower a circling balcony	B
Emporched a brazen door The silver roof	I3
Rested on shafts of jet and ivory work	P
Made a light fence against the deep abyss	J3
Before that portal huge a lady stood	S2
In radiant loveliness serene and bright	S2
Yet as it seemed expectant for as still	K3
She witched me towards her soft she beckon d me	B
With tiny hand more splendid than a star	L3
And then she smiled not as a mortal smiles	M3
With visible throes to the mere face confined	S2
But with her whole bright influence all at once	N3
In gracious act as the Immortals might	S2
God happy or as smiles the morning when	K
Its subtle lips in rosy beauty part	S2
Under a pearly cloud and breathe the while	O3
A golden prevalence of power abroad	S2
That taketh all the orient heaven and earth	P3
Into the glory of its own delight	S2
Then in a voice keen sweet and silvery clear	Q3
And intimately tender as the first	S2
Fine feeling of a love born bliss she spoke	R3
Where hast thou stayed so long Oh tell me where	G3
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With thrilling ears and heart I heard but felt	S2
Pass from me forth a cry of sudden fear	Q3
As swooning through the wildness of my joy	C2
Methought I drifted whither All was now	S3
One wide cold blank the lady and the tower	B3
The gleaming lake with all around it one	T3
Wide dreary blank the drearier for that still	K3
A dizzy clinging ghostly consciousness	A3
Kept flickering from mine inmost pulse of life	U3
Like a far meteor in some dismal marsh	V3
How long I knew not but the thrilling warmth	H3
That like the new birth of a passionate bliss	J3
Erewhile had searched me to the quick again	K
Shuddered within me more and more until	K3
Mine eyes had opened under two that made	S2
All else like darkness and upon my cheek	W3
A breath that seemed the final spirit of health	X3
And floral sweetness harbingered once more	H
The silver accents of that wondrous voice	Y3
Which to have heard was never to forget	S2
And with her tones came warbled as it seemed	S2
In mystical respondence to her voice	Y3
Still music such as Eolus gives forth	C3
But purer deeper warbled as from some	Z3
Unsearchable recess of soul supreme	N
Some depth of the Eternal echoing thence	I
Through the sweet meanings of its spirit speech	A4
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I answered not but followed in mute love	B4
The beamy glances of her eyes methought	S2
Close at her side I lay upon a couch	C4
Of purple blazoned all with stars of gold	S2
Tremblingly rayed with spiculated gems	D4
Thus sat we looking forth nor seemed it strange	E4
That the broad lake with its green shelving shores	F4
And all the hills and woods and winding vales	G4
Were basking in the beauty of a day	S2
So goldenly serene that never yet	S2
The perfect power of life essential light	S2
Had so enrobed since paradise was lost	S2
The common world inhabited by man	H4
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I saw this rare surpassing beauty yea	S2
But saw it all through her superior life	U3
Orbing mine own in love I felt her life	U3
The source of holiest and truth loving thoughts	I4
Breathing abroad like odours from a flower	B3
Enriched with rosy passion and pure joy	C2
And earnest tenderness Nor ever might	S2
The glassy lake below more quickly give	J4
Nimble impressions of the coming wind s	G
Invisible footsteps dimpling swift along	K4
Than instant tokens of communion sweet	S2
With outward beauty s subtle spirit passed	S2
Forth from her eyes and thence in lambent waves	L4
Suffused and lightened o er her visage bright	S2
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But as upon the wonder of her face	M4
My soul now feasted even till it seemed	S2
Instinct with kindred lustre lo her eyes	N4
Suddenly saddened then abstractedly	K3
Outfixing them as on some far wild thought	S2
That darkened up like a portentous cloud	S2
Over the morning of our peace she flung	O4
Her silver voice into a mystic song	K4
Of many measures which as forth they went	S2
Slid all into a sweet abundant flood	S2
Of metric melody And to her voice	Y3
As still she sung invisible singers joined	S2
A choral burden that prolonged the strain s	G
Rich concords till the echoes of the hills	D2
Came forth in tidal flow and backward then	K
Subsiding like a refluent wave died down	P4
In one rich harmony It strangely seemed	S2
As though the song were ware th	Q4

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