In visions of the dark night <br /> I have dreamed of joy departed- <br /> But a waking dream of life and light <br /> Hath left me broken-hearted. <br /> <br /> Ah! what is not a dream by day <br /> To him whose eyes are cast <br /> On things around him with a ray <br /> Turned back upon the past? <br /> <br /> That holy dream- that holy dream, <br /> While all the world were chiding, <br /> Hath cheered me as a lovely beam <br /> A lonely spirit guiding. <br /> <br /> What though that light, thro' storm and night, <br /> So trembled from afar- <br /> What could there be more purely bright <br /> In Truth's day-star?<br /><br />Edgar Allan Poe<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-dream-2/
