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