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- 1827
- A DREAM
- by Edgar Allan Poe
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- 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.
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- 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?
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- That holy dream- that holy dream,
- While all the world were chiding,
- Hath cheered me as a lovely beam
- A lonely spirit guiding.
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- What though that light, thro' storm and night,
- So trembled from afar-
- What could there be more purely bright
- In Truth's day-star?
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- -THE END-
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