A Dream

Lyrics

In visions of the 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 beam         A lonely spirit guiding. What though that light, thro' storm and         night,         So trembled from afar— What could there be more purely bright         In Truth's day-star?