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Reveries Du Soir : Evening Thoughts
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Dreams
Get PDFOh! I have had dreams,
I have had sweet dreams of childhood\u27s bright and sunny hours,
When I wander\u27d all day by the sparkling streams,
And cull\u27d for my mother the gay wild flow\u27rs.
When I wove her a wreath of the greenwoodbine,
And twin\u27d in it berries and violets gay!
And I crown\u27d her pale forehead and she kiss\u27d mine,
Ah! she like the flowers has faded away,
She has faded away! faded away!
I have had bright dreams of the old elm tree,
Beneath whose branches spreading wide,
I have sported away, in childish glee
The fleet-winged hours of the eventide.
I had dream\u27d of the friends once gather\u27d there,
To frolic away the long summer\u27s day,
Untrammel\u27d by fear, unwearied by care,
But they like the rest have faded away,
They have faded away, faded away.
I have had bright dreams as I\u27ve wander\u27d alone,
When still midnight in silence reign\u27d,
When my own pale star shone bright from it\u27s throne,
And in visions of hope my soul was chain\u27d.
But the cares of earth would come again,
The heart would grow sick with hope\u27s delay,
And the visions I wove of my destiny then
Ah! they like the rest have faded away, they have faded away! faded away!
I have had sweet dreams of a fairy form,
That was ever around me there,
Of her bird-like voice with its silvery charm,
Floating away on the evening air.
But alas for the flush and the wasting breath!
Alas for thy terrible power decay!
An angel beckoned her home from the earth,
Like the morning star she faded away!
She has faded away faded away
