The Dream.
In the dream I ilni«ii'»t to night _ Love came, armed with magic might ; Fret and fever, doubt and fear, Foes that haunt his kingdom here, Misconception, \ain resetting, Bootless longing, cold forfeiting, The dark shades of change and death, Ever hovering on his path ; Vanished, from or sound or sight, In the dream J drnmt to-night. Time's strong hand fell helpless do"wn ; Fate stood dared without her fiown ; Sly suspicion, cold surpiise, Faded 'neath the happy eyes ; And the voice Hove was speaking, And the smile I love was making Sunshine in the golden weather, Where we two stood close together ; For you reigned in royal tight, In the dream I dreamt to-ni;,hfc. And I woke, and woke to see A cold world, bare and blank to me, A world whose stare aud s=ncer sodrce hid Jen, Told me that as fruit foihidden, Love and tiust must ever pine In so sad a clasp as mine , All too faint and fipgile giovn, Foi gifto that youth holds all its own. Ah, best to wake, forgetting quite, The sweat tlreani I dreamt to-night. — All the Yearlloinut.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1830, 29 March 1884, Page 1 (Supplement)
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187The Dream. Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1830, 29 March 1884, Page 1 (Supplement)
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