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POEMS.
A visionary dream weaves round
My listening heart,
Oh, night! how wonderful and grand
To me thou art.
My listening heart,
Oh, night! how wonderful and grand
To me thou art.
Far off the ripples of the sea
Break on the sand,
Most musical the echoes steal
'Cross sky and land.
Break on the sand,
Most musical the echoes steal
'Cross sky and land.
One bird is warbling loud and clear,
The nightingale
Sings to the moon in rapturous notes
Her oft-told tale.
The nightingale
Sings to the moon in rapturous notes
Her oft-told tale.
What time the shadows sweep betwixt
The radiant sky,
She loves to pour her liquid tones
In one low sigh.
The radiant sky,
She loves to pour her liquid tones
In one low sigh.
Between two worlds we live and move
Of joy and woe,
The spirit and the fleshly school
Whose wavelets flow,
Of joy and woe,
The spirit and the fleshly school
Whose wavelets flow,
Adown the rugged shores of Time
Unto the goal
That lies in earthly mists, yet guides
The struggling soul.
Unto the goal
That lies in earthly mists, yet guides
The struggling soul.
Two worlds! the unseen and the seen,
Like day and night,
Like day and night,
