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on beauteous forms, as I lay dreaming,

But on no form as beautiful as thine,

Who here, amid the moonbeams white and holy,

Standest in silence by this bed of mine.

I looked on faces fair, as I lay sleeping,

But on no face that seemed so nobly sweet

As that which in the pallid light above me

My wondering, half-awakened sense doth greet.

Who and what art thou? Have I kept thee waiting?

My sleep was as a river deep and calm;

Bring'st thou perchance some word of import for me?

Hast thou for broken hearts, like mine, some balm?

Who and what art thou? In my tranquil vision

I gazed through rifted clouds on azure skies,—

I seemed to gaze beyond them,—but naught moved me

Like the deep pity in thy brooding eyes.

Why art thou here to-night? I have been lonely—

Have waited, prayed, for such an one as thou,