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[[v]]
In visions of the dark night
[[n]]
I have dreamed of joy departed —
[[n]]
But a waking dreams of life and light
Hath left me broken-hearted.
5
[[v]]
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,
10
While all the world were chiding,
Hath cheered me as a lovely beam
A lonely spirit guiding.
[[v]]
What though that light, thro’ storm and night,
[[v]]
So trembled from afar —
15
What could there be more purely bright
[[n]]
In Truths day-star?
(1827)
[The following variants appear at the bottom of page 30:]
Title Omitted in 1827.
1 1827 prefixes the following stanza:
A wilder’d being from my birth
My spirit spurn’d control,
But now, abroad on the wide earth,
Where wand’rest thou my soul?
5 Ah: And (1827, 1829).
13 storm and: misty (1827).
14 trembled from: dimly shone (1827).
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Notes:
None.
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[S:0 - KCP, 1917] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Works - A Dream (ed. K. Campbell, 1917)