PROEM.
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Some poet dreams come to the soul
In mystic beauty clad,
Unearthly in their loveliness,
So exquisitely sad.
Shadowy and dim and cloud-like things
Floating about on unseen wings,
They tremble on our sight;
As in our nightly visions come
Pale spirits from their starry home,
To vanish with the light,
And by the waking heart forgot,
E'en as a rose remembers not,
In sunshine rich and warm,
The moonbeams that through night's long hours
Came still and cold, in silver showers,
Upon her slumbering form.
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Some poet dreams come to the soul
In mystic beauty clad,
Unearthly in their loveliness,
So exquisitely sad.
Shadowy and dim and cloud-like things
Floating about on unseen wings,
They tremble on our sight;
As in our nightly visions come
Pale spirits from their starry home,
To vanish with the light,
And by the waking heart forgot,
E'en as a rose remembers not,
In sunshine rich and warm,
The moonbeams that through night's long hours
Came still and cold, in silver showers,
Upon her slumbering form.