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Only a Dream

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Only a Dream!          It floated thro'      The sky of a lonely sleep     As floats a gleam         Athwart the Blue      Of a golden clouded Deep.     Only a Dream!         I calmly slept.     Meseems I called a name;      I woke; and, waking, I think I wept     And called -- and called the same.     Only a Dream!         Graves have no ears;     They give not back the dead;      They will not listen to the saddest tears     That ever may be shed.     Only a Dream!         Graves keep their own;     They have no hearts to hear;      But the loved will come      From their Heaven-Home     To smile on the sleeper's tear.

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