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intro:Am, G
Am G
In Visons of the dark night
I have dreamed of joy departed
But a waking dream of life and light
Has left me broken hearted
Am G
That dream--that holy dream
while all the world was chiding
has cheeded me as a lovely beam
a lonely spirit guiding
Am G
Ah what is not a deam by day
To him whose eyes are cast
on things around hom with a ray
turned back upon thw past?
E
E Am
Take this kiss upon the brow
and, in parting from you now
thus much let me avow
E
you are not wrong who deem
that my days have been a drem;
yet if hope has flown away
in a night or in a day
Am E
in a vision or in none,
is it therefore the less gone?
all that we see or seen
is but a dream within a dream.
Am G
what though that light, through storm and noght
so trembled from afar
what could there be more purely bright
in truth's day-star?
Am G
That holy dream---that holy dream
while all the world was chiding
has cheered me as a lovely beam
a lonely spirit guiding.
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