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I	A
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Our life is twofold Sleep hath its own world	B
A boundary between the things misnamed	B
Death and existence Sleep hath its own world	B
And a wide realm of wild reality	B
And dreams in their development have breath	C
And tears and tortures and the touch of joy	D
They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts	E
They take a weight from off waking toils	F
They do divide our being they become	G
A portion of ourselves as of our time	H
And look like heralds of eternity	B
They pass like spirits of the past they speak	I
Like sibyls of the future they have power	J
The tyranny of pleasure and of pain	K
They make us what we were not what they will	L
And shake us with the vision that's gone by	A
The dread of vanished shadows Are they so	M
Is not the past all shadow What are they	N
Creations of the mind The mind can make	O
Substances and people planets of its own	P
With beings brighter than have been and give	Q
A breath to forms which can outlive all flesh	R
I would recall a vision which I dreamed	B
Perchance in sleep for in itself a thought	B
A slumbering thought is capable of years	S
And curdles a long life into one hour	J
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II	A
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I saw two beings in the hues of youth	T
Standing upon a hill a gentle hill	L
Green and of mild declivity the last	B
As 'twere the cape of a long ridge of such	U
Save that there was no sea to lave its base	V
But a most living landscape and the wave	W
Of woods and corn fields and the abodes of men	X
Scattered at intervals and wreathing smoke	Y
Arising from such rustic roofs the hill	L
Was crowned with a peculiar diadem	Z
Of trees in circular array so fixed	B
Not by the sport of nature but of man	A2
These two a maiden and a youth were there	B2
Gazing the one on all that was beneath	C2
Fair as herself but the boy gazed on her	J
And both were young and one was beautiful	D2
And both were young yet not alike in youth	T
As the sweet moon on the horizon's verge	E2
The maid was on the eve of womanhood	B
The boy had fewer summers but his heart	B
Had far outgrown his years and to his eye	A
There was but one beloved face on earth	F2
And that was shining on him he had looked	B
Upon it till it could not pass away	N
He had no breath no being but in hers	G2
She was his voice he did not speak to her	J
But trembled on her words she was his sight	B
For his eye followed hers and saw with hers	G2
Which coloured all his objects he had ceased	B
To live within himself she was his life	H2
The ocean to the river of his thoughts	E
Which terminated all upon a tone	P
A touch of hers his blood would ebb and flow	M
And his cheek change tempestuously his heart	B
Unknowing of its cause of agony	B
But she in these fond feelings had no share	B2
Her sighs were not for him to her he was	I2
Even as a brother but no more 'twas much	U
For brotherless she was save in the name	J2
Her infant friendship had bestowed on him	K2
Herself the solitary scion left	B
Of a time honoured race It was a name	J2
Which pleased him and yet pleased him not and why	A
Time taught him a deep answer when she loved	B
Another even now she loved another	J
And on the summit of that hill she stood	B
Looking afar if yet her lover's steed	B
Kept pace with her expectancy and flew	L2
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III	A
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A change came o'er the spirit of my dream	M2
There was an ancient mansion and before	N2
Its walls there was a steed caparisoned	B
Within an antique Oratory stood	B
The Boy of whom I spake he was alone	P
And pale and pacing to and fro anon	P
He sate him down and seized a pen and traced	B
Words which I could not guess of then he leaned	B
His bowed head on his hands and shook as 'twere	N2
With a convulsion then rose again	P
And with his teeth and quivering hands did tear	N2
What he had written but he shed no tears	O2
And he did calm himself and fix his brow	N2
Into a kind of quiet as he paused	B
The Lady of his love re entered there	N2
She was serene and smiling then and yet	B
She knew she was by him beloved she knew	P
For quickly comes such knowledge that his heart	B
Was darkened with her shadow and she saw	P2
That he was wretched but she saw not all	Q2
He rose and with a cold and gentle grasp	R2
He took her hand a moment o'er his face	V
A tablet of unutterable thoughts	E
Was traced and then it faded as it came	J2
He dropped the hand he held and with slow steps	S2
Retired but not as bidding her adieu	P
For they did part with mutual smiles he passed	B
From out the massy gate of that old Hall	Q2
And mounting on his steed he went his way	N
And ne'er repassed that hoary threshold more	N2
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IV	H2
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A change came o'er the spirit of my dream	M2
The Boy was sprung to manhood in the wilds	T2
Of fiery climes he made himself a home	U2
And his Soul drank their sunbeams he was girt	B
With strange and dusky aspects he was not	B
Himself like what he had been on the sea	B
And on the shore he was a wanderer	N2
There was a mass of many images	V2
Crowded like waves upon me but he was	I2
A part of all and in the last he lay	N
Reposing from the noontide sultriness	I2
Couched among fallen columns in the shade	B
Of ruined walls that had survived the names	I2
Of those who reared them by his sleeping side	B
Stood camels grazing and some goodly steeds	I2
Were fastened near a fountain and a man	P
Glad in a flowing garb did watch the while	W2
While many of his tribe slumbered around	B
And they were canopied by the blue sky	A
So cloudless clear and purely beautiful	D2
That God alone was to be seen in heaven	P
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V	B
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A change came o'er the spirit of my dream	M2
The Lady of his love was wed with One	P
Who did not love her better in her home	U2
A thousand leagues from his her native home	U2
She dwelt begirt with growing Infancy	B
Daughters and sons of Beauty but behold	B
Upon her face there was a tint of grief	H2
The settled shadow of an inward strife	H2
And an unquiet drooping of the eye	A
As if its lid were charged with unshed tears	I2
What could her grief be she had all she loved	B
And he who had so loved her was not there	N2
To trouble with bad hopes or evil wish	X2
Or ill repressed affliction her pure thoughts	I2
What could her grief be she had loved him not	B
Nor given him cause to deem himself beloved	B
Nor could he be a part of that which preyed	B
Upon her mind a spectre of the past	B
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VI	A
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A change came o'er the spirit of my dream	M2
The Wanderer was returned I saw him stand	B
Before an altar with a gentle bride	B
Her face was fair but was not that which made	B
The Starlight of his Boyhood as he stood	B
Even at the altar o'er his brow there came	J2
The selfsame aspect and the quivering shock	Y2
That in the antique Oratory shook	Z2
His bosom in its solitude and then	P
As in that hour a moment o'er his face	I2
The tablet of unutterable thoughts	I2
Was traced and then it faded as it came	J2
And he stood calm and quiet and he spoke	Y
The fitting vows but heard not his own words	I2
And all things reeled around him he could see	B
Not that which was nor that which should have been	P
But the old mansion and the accustomed hall	Q2
And the remembered chambers and the place	I2
The day the hour the sunshine and the shade	B
All things pertaining to that place and hour	N2
And her who was his destiny came back	A3
And thrust themselves between him and the light	B
What business had they there at such a time	H
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VII	A
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A change came o'er the spirit of my dream	M2
The Lady of his love Oh she was changed	B
As by the sickness of the soul her mind	B
Had wandered from its dwelling and her eyes	I2
They had not their own lustre but the look	Z2
Which is not of the earth she was become	G
The queen of a fantastic realm her thoughts	I2
Were combinations of disjointed things	I2
And forms impalpable and unperceived	B
Of others' sight familiar were to hers	I2
And this the world calls frenzy but the wise	I2
Have a far deeper madness and the glance	I2
Of melancholy is a fearful gift	B
What is it but the telescope of truth	T
Which strips the distance of its fantasies	I2
And brings life near in utter nakedness	I2
Making the cold reality too real	B3
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VIII	A
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A change came o'er the spirit of my dream	M2
The Wanderer was alone as heretofore	N2
The beings which surrounded him were gone	P
Or were at war with him he was a mark	C3
For blight and desolation compassed round	B
With Hatred and Contention Pain was mixed	B
In all which was served up to him until	L
Like to the Pontic monarch of old days	I2
He fed on poisons and they had no power	N2
But were a kind of nutriment he lived	B
Through that which had been death to many men	P
And made him friends of mountains with the stars	I2
And the quick Spirit of the Universe	I2
He held his dialogues and they did teach	D3
To him the magic of their mysteries	I2
To him the book of Night was opened wide	B
And voices from the deep abyss revealed	B
A marvel and a secret Be it so	I2
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IX	I2
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My dream is past it had no further change	E3
It was of a strange order that the doom	F3
Of these two creatures should be thus traced out	B
Almost like a reality the one	P
To end in madness both in misery	B