The Sundial - Of Paradise & Love Lyrics
Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream!My spirit not awakening, till the beamOf an Eternity should bring the morrow.Yes! tho' that long dream were of hopeless sorrow,'Twere better than the cold realityOf waking life, to him whose heart must be,And hath been still, upon the lovely earth,A chaos of deep passion, from his birth.But should it be- that dream eternallyContinuing as dreams have been to meIn my young boyhood, should it thus be given,'Twere folly still to hope for higher Heaven.For I have revell'd, when the sun was brightI' the summer sky, in dreams of living lightAnd loveliness, have left my very heartIn climes of my imagining, apartFrom mine own home, with beings that have beenOf mine own thought - what more... what more could I have seen?[Anastacia’s voice]Tra-la-la-la-la-la....[Talk:]'Twas once and only once and the wild hourFrom my remembrance shall not pass some powerOr spell had bound me 'twas the chillywindCame o'er me in the night, and left behindIts image on my spirit or the moonShone on my slumbers in her lofty noonToo coldly or the stars howe'er it wasThat dream was as that night-wind let it pass.I have been happy, tho' in a dream.I have been happy and I love the theme:Dreams! in their vivid coloring of life,As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strifeOf semblance with reality, which bringsTo the delirious eye, more lovely thingsOf Paradise and Love - and all our own! [3x]Than young Hope in his sunniest hour hath known.
