Of Paradise and Love-The Sundial

[00:04.240]Of Paradise And Love -The Sundial [01:12.780]Oh that my young life were a lasting dream [01:21.400]My spirit not awakening till the beam [01:29.390]Of an Eternity should bring the morrow [01:37.810]Yes tho'that long dream were of hopeless sorrow [01:50.610]'Twere better than the cold reality [01:53.230]Of waking life to him whose heart must be [01:58.460]A chaos of deep passion from his birth [02:03.820]But should it be-that dream eternally [02:07.310]Continuing-as dreams have been to me [02:14.740]In my young boyhood-should it thus be given [02:18.860]'Twere folly still to hope for higher Heaven [02:22.910]For I have revell'd when the sun was bright [02:31.910]I'the summer sky in dreams of living light [02:40.460]And loveliness -have left my very heart [02:48.420]In climes of my imagining apart [02:56.610]From mine own home with beings that have been [03:04.720]Of mine own thought-what more could I have seen [04:05.825]'Twas once-and only once-and the wild hour [04:10.565]From my remembrance shall not pass-some power [04:13.875]Or spell had bound me-'twas the chilly wind [04:17.645]Came o'er me in the night and left behind [04:21.75]Its image on my spirit-or the moon [04:24.515]Shone on my slumbers in her lofty noon [04:28.315]Too coldly-or the stars-howe'er it was [04:31.685]That dream was as that night-wind-let it pass [04:41.185]I have been happy tho'in a dream [04:45.55]I have been happy-and I love the theme: [04:49.45]Dreams in their vivid coloring of life [04:53.580]As in that fleeting shadowy misty strife [04:57.460]Of semblance with reality which brings [05:02.380]To the delirious eye more lovely things [05:05.750]Of Paradise and Love-and all our own [05:09.250]Than young Hope in his sunniest hour hath known [05:13.650]Original name:"Dreams"by Edgar Allan Poe