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A DREAM



In visions of dark night

I have dreamed of joy departed,

But a waking dream of life and light

Hath left me broken-hearted.



Ah! what is not a dream by day

To him whose eyes are cast

On things around him with a ray

Turned back upon the past?



That holy dream-that holy dream,

While all the world were chiding,

Hath cheered me as a lovely dream

A lonely spirit guiding.



What thought that light, thro'storm and night

So trembled from afar,

What could there be more purely bright

In Truth's day star?



- Edgar Allan Poe