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I have dreamed sweet dreams of a summer night	A
When the moon was walking in cloudless light	A
And my soul to the regions of Fancy sprung	B
While the spirits of air their soft anthems sung	B
Strains wafted down from those heavenly spheres	C
Which may not be warbled in waking ears	C
More sweet than the voice of waters flowing	D
Than the breeze over beds of violets blowing	D
When it stirs the pines and sultry day	E
Fans himself cool with their tremulous play	E
On the sleeper's ear those rich notes stealing	D
Speak of purer and holier feeling	D
Than man in his pilgrimage here below	F
In the bondage of sin can ever know	F
	-
I heard in my slumbers the ceaseless roar	G
Of the sparkling waves as they met the shore	G
Till lulled by the surge of the moon lit deep	H
By the heaving ocean I sank to sleep	H
And a magic spell on my spirit was cast	I
And forms that had perished in ages past	I
Were by Fancy revealed to my wondering view	J
As the veil of Oblivion she backward drew	J
And showed me a glorious vision dressed	K
In the rosy light of the glowing west	K
Such colours at parting the day god throws	L
To gild his path as rejoicing he goes	L
Like a victor red with the spoils of fight	A
To raise through darkness the banner of light	A
	-
Slowly and soothingly stole on my ear	M
Strains such as spirits in ecstasy hear	M
When they tune their harps at the jasper throne	N
Of eternal light with its rainbow zone	N
And the harmony drawn from those living strings	O
Gushes forth from the fountain whence music springs	O
But those songs divine of heavenly birth	P
Are seldom repeated to sons of earth	P
Such sounds as I heard by that summer sea	Q
Were never produced by man's minstrelsy	Q
Which rose and sank by the billowy motion	R
Of the breaking wave and the heaving ocean	R
Now borne on the night breeze was wafted high	S
Through the glowing depths of the star lit sky	S
Now mournfully wailing like plaintive dirge	T
Rushed to the shore with the rush of the surge	T
	-
And I saw a figure all radiantly bright	A
Float over the waves in the pale moonlight	A
She moved to the notes of a magical song	U
And the billows scarce murmured that bore her along	U
The winds became mute and the snowy wreath	V
That crested the billows looked dim beneath	V
Her silvery feet that as lightly trod	W
The heaving deep as the emerald sod	W
A garland of coral her temples bound	X
And her glittering robes floated lightly round	X
Veiling her form in a shadowy shroud	Y
Like the mist that hangs on the morning cloud	Y
Ere the sun dispels with his rising beam	Z
The vapours exhaled from the marshy stream	Z
The breeze wafted back from her forehead fair	A2
Her long flowing tresses of shining hair	A2
Which cast on her features a lambent glow	F
Like a halo encircling her brow of snow	F
Revealing a face of such faultless mould	B2
As that sea born goddess possessed of old	B2
The morning she rose from the purple tide	C2
The queen of beauty and joy's fair bride	C2
But her cheek was as pale as the ocean spray	E
Ere it catches a flush from the rosy day	E
And the shade of a deathless grief was there	A2
Which spake more of ages than years of care	A2
As though she had borne since the world began	D2
Every sorrow and trial that waits upon man	D2
	-
Such was the shadow that haunted my dream	Z
Such was the figure that rose from the stream	Z
And I felt a strange and electric thrill	E2
Of unearthly delight my bosom fill	E2
As she neared the shore and I heard the strain	F2
That charmed into silence the listening main	F2
	-
Child of the earth behold in me	Q
The desolate spirit of things that were	G2
I keep Oblivion's iron key	Q
Far far below in the pathless sea	Q
Where never a sound from the upper air	A2
Is heard in those realms where in darkness hurled	H2
Lie the shattered domes of the ancient world	H2
	-
A thousand ages have slowly rolled	B2
O'er temple and tower and fortress strong	U
By the giant kings possessed of old	B2
That buried beneath the waters cold	B2
Only echo the mermaids' plaintive song	U
When they weep o'er the form of some child of clay	E
'Mid the wreck of a world that has passed away	E
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The spirits of earth and air have sighed	C2
To traverse those halls in vain	F2
The rolling waters those ruins hide	C2
And buried beneath the oozy tide	C2
They sleep in my icy chain	F2
And if thou canst banish all mortal dread	I2
Thou shalt view that world of the mighty dead	I2
	-
Far over the breast of the waters wide	C2
That song's plaintive cadence in distance died	C2
And I heard but the tremulous mournful sweep	H
Of the night winds ruffling the azure deep	H

Susanna Moodie

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