Of Paradise And Love-The Sundial

[ti:Of Paradise And Love] [ar:The Sundial] [al:Transition] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Of Paradise And Love - The Sundial [01:12.78]Oh that my young life were a lasting dream [01:21.40]My spirit not awakening till the beam [01:29.39]Of an Eternity should bring the morrow [01:37.81]Yes tho' that long dream were of hopeless sorrow [01:50.61]'Twere better than the cold reality [01:53.23]Of waking life to him whose heart must be [01:58.46]A chaos of deep passion from his birth [02:03.82]But should it be- that dream eternally [02:07.31]Continuing- as dreams have been to me [02:14.74]In my young boyhood- should it thus be given [02:18.86]'Twere folly still to hope for higher Heaven [02:22.91]For I have revell'd when the sun was bright [02:31.91]I' the summer sky in dreams of living light [02:40.46]And loveliness - have left my very heart [02:48.42]In climes of my imagining apart [02:56.61]From mine own home with beings that have been [03:04.72]Of mine own thought- what more could I have seen [03:17.07] [04:05.82]'Twas once- and only once- and the wild hour [04:10.56]From my remembrance shall not pass- some power [04:13.87]Or spell had bound me- 'twas the chilly wind [04:17.64]Came o'er me in the night and left behind [04:21.07]Its image on my spirit- or the moon [04:24.51]Shone on my slumbers in her lofty noon [04:28.31]Too coldly- or the stars- howe'er it was [04:31.68]That dream was as that night-wind- let it pass [04:41.18]I have been happy tho' in a dream [04:45.05]I have been happy- and I love the theme: [04:49.04]Dreams in their vivid coloring of life [04:53.58]As in that fleeting shadowy misty strife [04:57.46]Of semblance with reality which brings [05:02.38]To the delirious eye more lovely things [05:05.75]Of Paradise and Love- and all our own [05:09.25]Than young Hope in his sunniest hour hath known [05:13.65]Original name: "Dreams" by Edgar Allan Poe (1827)