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/ I. I dreamed last night once more I stood / Knee-deep in purple clover leas; / Your old home glimmered thro' its wood / Of dark and melancholy trees, / Where ev'ry sudden summer breeze / That wantoned o'er the solitude / The water's melody pursued, / And sleepy hummings of the bees.
/ II. And ankle-deep in violet blooms / Methought I saw you standing there, / A lawny light among the glooms, / A crown of sunlight on your hair; / Wild songsters singing every where / Made lightning with their glossy plumes; / About you clung the wild perfumes / And swooned along the shining air.
/ III. And then you called me, and my ears / Grew flattered with the music, led / In fancy back to sweeter years, / Far sweeter years that now are dead; / And at your summons fast I sped, / Buoyant as one a goal who nears. / Ah! lost, dead love! I woke in tears; / For as I neared you farther fled!