National Lyrics, and Songs for Music/I would we had not met again
‡ I WOULD WE HAD NOT MET AGAIN.
I would we had not met again!
—I had a dream of thee,
Lovely, tho' sad, on desert plain,
Mournful on midnight sea.
What tho' it haunted me by night,
And troubled thro' the day?
It touched all earth with spirit-light,
It glorified my way!
Oh! what shall now my faith restore
In holy things and fair?
We met—I saw thy soul once more—
—The world's breath had been there!
Yes! it was sad on desert-plain,
Mournful on midnight sea,
Yet would I buy with life again
That one deep dream of thee!