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LOVE'S EARLY DREAM, by                    
First Line: Love's early dream has music / in the tale it loves to tell
Last Line: To lead the wanderer home.


Love's early dream has music
In the tale it loves to tell;
Love's early dream has roses
Where it delights to dwell;
It has beauty in its landscape,
And verdure in its trees,
Unshadowed by a passing cloud,
Unruffled by a breeze.

Love's early dream has moonlight
Upon its crystal lake,
Where stormy tempest never blows
Nor angry billows break;
It has splendour in its sunshine,
And freshness in its dew,
And all its scenes of happiness
Are beautiful, and -- true?

Love's early dream has kindness
In every look and tone;
Love's early dream has tenderness
For one, and one alone.
It has melody of language,
And harmony of thought,
And knows no sound of dissonance
By ruder science taught.

Oh! early dream of happiness,
Where is thy waking bliss?
What brings thy golden promises
To such a world as this?
Perchance thou art some shadow
Of that which is to come --
The fluttering of an angel's wings,
To lead the wanderer home.





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