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J. P. E. HARTMANN.
ANDANTINO SOSTENUTO IN B♭.
SLEEP, sleep, sad memories, and in your sleepBe woven all into a dulcet dream.
Wherein, regenerate by the salving stream
Of fain forgetfulness, your sense shall steep
In that afar unfathomable deep
Of peace, that lies beyond the sunset-gleam
And on its bosom bears the Hesperian beam
To lands of rest, where hope in heaven shall reap.
Look through the painted pane of Time's effacement,
Life's sweets remembering and its sours forgetting,
And fill my soul with light of consolation,
Even as the sunlight of a stormful setting
Shines through some many-hued cathedral casement,
O'erflooding all with Faith's transfiguration.
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