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The Dream

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I did not deem it half so sweet     To feel thy gentle hand,     As in a dream thy soul to greet     Across wide leagues of land,     Untouched more near to draw to you     Where, amid radiant skies,     Glimmered thy plumes of iris hue,     My Bird of Paradise.     Let me dream only with my heart,     Love first, and after see:     Know thy diviner counterpart     Before I kneel to thee.     So in thy motions all expressed     Thy angel I may view:     I shall not on thy beauty rest,     But Beauty's ray in you.

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"I did not deem it half so sweet..."

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