The Sundial - A Dream lyrics

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[by Edgar Allan Poe (1827)]<br />

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[Verse 1:]<br />

In visions of the dark night<br />

I have dreamed of joy departed<br />

But a waking dream of life and light<br />

Hath left me broken-hearted.<br />

Ah! what is not a dream by day<br />

To him whose eyes are cast<br />

On things around him with a ray<br />

Turned back upon the past?<br />

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[piano & violin solo]<br />

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[Verse 2:]<br />

That holy dream - that holy dream,<br />

While all the world were chiding,<br />

Hath cheered me as a lovely beam<br />

A lonely spirit guiding.<br />

What though that light, thro' storm and night,<br />

So trembled from afar<br />

What could there be more purely bright<br />

In Truth's day - star?<br />

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[violin solo]<br />

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A dream...<br />

A dream...<br />

<br />

That holy dream - that holy dream,<br />

While all the world were chiding,<br />

Hath cheered me as a lovely beam<br />

A lonely spirit guiding.<br />

What though that light, thro' storm and night,<br />

So trembled from afar<br />

What could there be more purely bright<br />

In Truth's day - star?<br />

<br />

A dream...<br />

A dream...<br />

<br />

In visions of the dark night<br />

I have dreamed of joy departed<br />

But a waking dream of life and light<br />

Hath left me broken-hearted.<br />

Ah! what is not a dream by day<br />

To him whose eyes are cast<br />

On things around him with a ray<br />

Turned back upon the past?