A Dream -The Sundial
In visions of the dark night
I have dreamed of joy departed
But a waking dream of life and light
Hath left me broken-hearted
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
Hath cheered me as a lovely beam
A lonely spirit guiding
What though that light thro