A Dream lyrics

In visions of the dark night

I have dreamed of joy depart

But a waking dream of life and light

Have left me broken heart

Ah! what is not a dream by day

To him whose eyes are cast

On things around him with a ray

Turned back upon the past

That holy dream, that holy dream

While all the world were chiding

Chiding

What though that light

Through storm and night

So trembled from afar

What could there be more purely bright

In truth's day-star?

That holy dream, that holy dream

While all the world were chiding

Chiding

Hath cheered me as a lovely beam

A lonely spirit guiding

That holy dream, that holy dream

A lonely spirit guiding