[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