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Glenara Glenara now read me my dream	A
Campbell	B
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Father I have dreamed a dream	A
When the rosy morning hour	C
Poured its light on field and stream	A
Kindling nature with its pow'r	D
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O'er the meadow's dewy breast	E
I had chased a butterfly	F
Tempted by its gaudy vest	E
Still my vain pursuit to ply	F
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Till my limbs were weary grown	G
With the distance I had strayed	H
Then to rest I laid me down	I
Where a beech tree cast its shade	H
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Soon a heaviness came o'er me	J
And a deep sleep sealed my eyes	K
And a vision past before me	J
Full of changing phantasies	K
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First I stood beside a bower	C
Green as summer bow'r could be	J
Vine and fruit and leaf and flower	C
Mixed to weave its canopy	J
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And within reclined a form	L
As embodied moonlight fair	M
With a soft cheek fresh and warm	L
Deep blue eye and sunny hair	M
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By her side a goblet stood	N
Such as bacchanalians brim	O
High the rich grape's crimson blood	P
Sparkled o'er its gilded rim	O
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As I gazed she bowed her head	Q
With a gay and graceful move	R
And in words of music said	Q
Drink and learn the lore of love	S
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Next I stood beside a mountain	T
Of majestic form and height	U
Cliff and crag and glen and fountain	T
Mingled to make up its might	U
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On its lofty brow were growing	V
Flowers never chilled by gloom	W
For the sky above them glowing	V
Dyed them with a deathless bloom	W
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And I saw the crystal dome	X
Wondrous in its majesty	J
Where earth's great ones find a home	X
When their spirits are set free	J
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By its portals I espied	J
One who kept the courts within	Y
High he waved a wreath and cried	J
Come up hither strive and win	Y
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Then my vision changed again	Z
In a fairy coloured shell	A2
O'er the wide sea's pathless plain	B2
I was speeding fast and well	A2
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Suddenly beneath its prow	C2
Parted were the azure waves	K
And I saw where far below	D2
Yawn the vast deep's secret caves	K
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Where the Syren sings her song	E2
To old Ocean's sons and daughters	K
And the mermaids dance along	E2
To the music of the waters	K
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Where the coral forest o'er	C
Storm or tempest ne'er is driven	T
And the gems that strew its floor	F2
Sparkle like the stars in heaven	T
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Treasures such as never eye	F
Of the earth has looked upon	G2
Gold and pearls of many a dye	F
There in rich profusion shone	G
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And a voice came to my ear	H2
Saying in a stern cold tone	G
Such as chills the heart with fear	I2
Seize and make the prize thine own	G
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Then across a clouded wild	J
Lone and drear and desolate	J
Where no cheerful cottage smiled	J
I pursued the steps of fate	J
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Ever bearing in my breast	J
Thoughts almost to madness wrought	J
Ever ever seeking rest	J
Never finding what I Sought	J
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Till I gave my wanderings o'er	C
By a black and icy stream	A
Deep I plunged and knew no more	F2
Father read me now my dream	A
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The old man bowed his head	J
And pressed his thin hand to his withered brow	C2
As if he struggled with some rising thought	J
Which should have kept its place in memory's urn	J2
Till he had cast the shadow from his soul	K2
Which for a while had bound it in a spell	A2
Born of the bygone years then thus he spoke	L2
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Now listen boy and I will show to thee	J
The import of thy vision I will tell	A2
Thee what its scenes and shapes of mystery	J
Foreshadow of the future for full well	A2
I know the wizard lore whose witchery	J
Binds e'en the time to come in its wild spell	A2
And from approaching years a knowledge wrings	K
Of what they bear upon their viewless wings	K
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Along life's weary way of pain and care	J
From earliest infancy to eldest age	M2
Forms viewless as the soft breathed summer air	J
Attend man's footsteps in his pilgrimage	N2
And if his destiny be dark or fair	J
If Pleasure gilds or Sorrow blots the page	M2
Whereon is traced his history still his ear	J
Will ever catch their warning voices near	J
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And they those guardian ones who while thy sleep	O2
Hung o'er thee like a curtain came around	J
And fanned thee till thy slumber grew more deep	O2
Flung o'er thy rest so perfect and profound	J
A dream whose mem'ry thou shouldst ever keep	O2
Bound to thy spirit for altho' it wound	J
Thy young heart now perchance in after years	K
'Twill save thee much of toil and many tears	K
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It was a dream of life of boyhood's strong	E2
And soul consuming yearnings after love	S
His eager search to find amid the throng	E2
Some heart to give him thought for thought to move	R
And mingle with his own as twines the song	E2
From Beauty's lyre and lips to know and prove	R
The dearest joy to care cursed mortals given	T
The one with least of earth and most of heaven	T
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Of manhood's ceaseless strivings after fame	P2
The veriest phantom of all phantasies	K
For which he wields the sword or lights the flame	P2
Whose red glare mocks a nation's agonies	K
Or by his star outwatching taper plies	K
His pen or pencil to gain what a name	P2
A passing sound an echo a mere breath	Q2
Which he vain fool dreams mightier than death	Q2
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And of a later period when the soul	K2
Forsakes its high resolves and wild desires	K
When stern Ambition can no more control	K2
And Love has shrouded o'er its smothered fires	K
When Expectation ceases to console	K2
And Hope the last kind comforter expires	K
And Avarice monster of the gilded vest	J
Creeps in and occupies the vacant breast	J
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And then the last sad scene The sick heart sore	J
And fainting from its wounds the palsied limb	O
The brow whose death sweat peeps from every pore	J
The eye with its long weary watch grown dim	O
The withered wan cheek that shall bloom no more	J
The last dregs dripping slowly from the brim	O
Of life's drained cup behind all gloom before	J
A deep dark gulf we plunge and all is o'er	J

George W. Sands

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