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                               A DREAM

                          by Edgar Allan Poe








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