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And who shall say but what our dreams may tell

Some secret we were hardly meant to know,

As if a feather from a rapt lark fell,

To say that in high heaven all things are well,

However black the heart of man below?

If through my visions thus you nightly go,

Robed round with love, may not my dreaming mean

That some day we may wander to and fro

In unknown meadows gowned in such a green

As all the fields of earth cannot excel?

Ah, love, there is a pledge of keener bliss

In these unbidden dreams of sleeping hours,

That set all right that may have been amiss,

And lend us wings to clear whate’er abyss

Darkly across our waking pathway glowers.

There is some promise in these strange new flowers

Holier than we have dreamt of or have planned;

Some fairer fate eternally is ours:—

Only it is so hard to understand.

You love me! Are there greater things than this?