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I	A
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The other night I had a dream most clear	B
And comforting complete	C
In every line a crystal sphere	B
And full of intimate and secret cheer	B
Therefore I will repeat	C
That vision dearest heart to you	D
As of a thing not feigned but very true	D
Yes true as ever in my life befell	E
And you perhaps can tell	E
Whether my dream was really sad or sweet	C
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II	A
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The shadows flecked the elm embowered street	C
I knew so well long long ago	F
And on the pillared porch where Marguerite	C
Had sat with me the moonlight lay like snow	F
But she my comrade and my friend of youth	G
Most gaily wise	H
Most innocently loved	I
She of the blue grey eyes	H
That ever smiled and ever spoke the truth	G
From that familiar dwelling where she moved	J
Like mirth incarnate in the years before	K
Had gone into the hidden house of Death	L
I thought the garden wore	K
White mourning for her blessed innocence	M
And the syringa's breath	L
Came from the corner by the fence	N
Where she had made her rustic seat	C
With fragrance passionate intense	N
As if it breathed a sigh for Marguerite	C
My heart was heavy with a sense	N
Of something good forever gone I sought	O
Vainly for some consoling thought	O
Some comfortable word that I could say	P
To the sad father whom I visited again	Q
For the first time since she had gone away	P
The bell rang shrill and lonely then	Q
The door was opened and I sent my name	R
To him but ah 't was Marguerite who came	R
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There in the dear old dusky room she stood	S
Beneath the lamp just as she used to stand	T
In tender mocking mood	U
You did not ask for me she said	V
And so I will not let you take my hand	T
But I must hear what secret talk you planned	T
With father Come my friend be good	S
And tell me your affairs of state	W
Why you have stayed away and made me wait	W
So long Sit down beside me here	X
And do you know it seemed a year	B
Since we have talked together why so late	W
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Amazed incredulous confused with joy	Y
I hardly dared to show	F
And stammering like a boy	Y
I took the place she showed me at her side	Z
And then the talk flowed on with brimming tide	Z
Through the still night	A2
While she with influence light	A2
Controlled it as the moon the flood	B2
She knew where I had been what I had done	C2
What work was planned and what begun	C2
My troubles failures fears she understood	S
And touched them with a heart so kind	D2
That every care was melted from my mind	D2
And every hope grew bright	A2
And life seemed moving on to happy ends	E2
Ah what self beggared fool was he	F2
That said a woman cannot be	F2
The very best of friends	E2
Then there were memories of old times	G2
Recalled with many a gentle jest	H2
And at the last she brought the book of rhymes	G2
We made together trying to translate	W
The Songs of Heine hers were always best	H2
Now come she said	V
To night we will collaborate	W
Again I'll put you to the test	H2
Here's one I never found the way to do	D
The simplest are the hardest ones you know	F
I give this song to you	D
And then she read	V
Mein kind wir waren Kinder	I2
Zei Kinder jung und froh	F
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But all the while a silent question stirred	J2
Within me though I dared not speak the word	J2
Is it herself and is she truly here	X
And was I dreaming when I heard	J2
That she was dead last year	B
Or was it true and is she but a shade	K2
Who brings a fleeting joy to eye and ear	X
Cold though so kind and will she gently fade	K2
When her sweet ghostly part is played	K2
And the light curtain falls at dawn of day	P
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But while my heart was troubled by this fear	B
So deeply that I could not speak it out	L2
Lest all my happiness should disappear	B
I thought me of a cunning way	P
To hide the question and dissolve the doubt	L2
Will you not give me now your hand	T
Dear Marguerite I asked to touch and hold	M2
That by this token I may understand	T
You are the same true friend you were of old	M2
She answered with a smile so bright and calm	N2
It seemed as if I saw new stars arise	H
In the deep heaven of her eyes	H
And smiling so she laid her palm	N2
In mine Dear God it was not cold	M2
But warm with vital heat	C
You live I cried you live dear Marguerite	C
Then I awoke but strangely comforted	O2
Although I knew again that she was dead	V
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III	A
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Yes there's the dream And was it sweet or sad	P2
Dear mistress of my waking and my sleep	Q2
Present reward of all my heart's desire	I2
Watching with me beside the winter fire	I2
Interpret now this vision that I had	P2
But while you read the meaning let me keep	Q2
The touch of you for the Old Year with storm	R2
Is passing through the midnight and doth shake	S2
The corners of the house man oh my heart would break	S2
Unless both dreaming and awake	S2
My hand could feel your hand was warm warm warm	R2

Henry Van Dyke

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