Frances Anne Kemble - Dream-Land (I) lyrics

All the night long you come to me in dreams, My lady dear! Ah, wherefore do you so? Surely it is because you do not know What tender mercy from your sweet face streams When thus you visit me, and for awhile Lift off the load of my great misery With the compa**ionate blessing of your smile: Then I awake for joy, and bitterly Weep that I did awake; meantime, perchance, My image, all unconscious, through the trance, Of your deep slumber has had leave to glide A senseless phantom, even to your side. Oh, tell me, by these burning tears I weep, Whom do you see, my lady, while you sleep?