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THE DREAM by HEINRICH HEINE

First Line: A VISION I DREAMT OF A LOVELY CHILD
Last Line: IN SILENCE AND ALL-UNCARING.
Subject(s): DREAMS; KISSES; LOVE; SILENCE; NIGHTMARES;

AVISION I dreamt of a lovely child.
She wore her hair in tresses;
In the blue nights of summer so calm and mild
We sat in the greenwood's recesses.

In mutual rapture and torture we vied,
We loved and exchanged loving kisses;
The yellow stars in the heavens all sigh'd
And seem'd to envy our blisses.

I now am awake, and around me gaze
In the darkness, alone and despairing;
The stars in the heavens are shedding their rays
In silence and all-uncaring.



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