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THE DREAM by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

First Line: I WOKE TO FIND MY PILLOW WET
Last Line: WAS I THY CAPTIVE ALL O'ERTHROWN?
Subject(s): DREAMS; GRIEF; LOVE - COMPLAINTS; TEARS; NIGHTMARES; SORROW; SADNESS;

I WOKE to find my pillow wet
With tears for deeds deep hid in sleep.
I knew no sorrow here, but yet
The tears fell softly through the deep.

Your eyes, your other eyes of dream,
Looked at me through the veil of blank;
I saw their joyous, starlit gleam
Like one who watches rank on rank.

His victor airy legions wind
And pass before his awful throne—
Was there thy loving heart unkind,
Was I thy captive all o'erthrown?



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