'TWAS BUT A DREAM
The moonlight rested on the hills, and swept along the valleys;
The pale stars glimmered out afar, within the distant heavens:
We stood together, you and I,
We heeded not the moonlit sky,
Or the stars, that watched us from on high.
The pale stars glimmered out afar, within the distant heavens:
We stood together, you and I,
We heeded not the moonlit sky,
Or the stars, that watched us from on high.
I read the lovelight in your eyes, although your lips were silent:
And as I read, I thought I knew the secrets of the angels;
Your head, it lay upon my breast,
And there it lay in perfect rest,
My little love, in perfect rest.
And as I read, I thought I knew the secrets of the angels;
Your head, it lay upon my breast,
And there it lay in perfect rest,
My little love, in perfect rest.
CHORUS
'Twas but a dream! 'Twas but a dream!
I woke to find it but a dream!
But I know in heaven I shall find
My little love for God is kind:
Where all sweet life is but a dream—
A perfect dream; a perfect dream;
Where all sweet life is one long dream
Of love; a perfect dream of love!
I woke to find it but a dream!
But I know in heaven I shall find
My little love for God is kind:
Where all sweet life is but a dream—
A perfect dream; a perfect dream;
Where all sweet life is one long dream
Of love; a perfect dream of love!
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