Dream

[Am]  [G]

[Am]In Visons of th[G]e dark night
I have dreamed of joy departed
But a waking dream of life and light
Has left me broken hearted

[Am]That dream--tha[G]t holy dream
while all the world was chiding
has cheeded me as a lovely beam
a lonely spirit guiding

[Am]Ah what is not [G]a deam by day
To him whose eyes are cast
on things around hom with a ray
turned back upon thw past?

[E]

[E]Take this kiss u[Am]pon 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]in a vision or in[E] none,
is it therefore the less gone?
all that we see or seen
is but a dream within a dream.

[Am]what though that [G]light, through storm and noght
so trembled from afar
what could there be more purely bright
in truth's day-star?
[Am]That holy dream---tha[G]t holy dream
while all the world was chiding
has cheered me as a lovely beam
a lonely spirit guiding.