Life and Phantasy by William Allingham: With frontispiece by Sir John E. Millais: A design by Arthur H. Hughes and a song for voice and piano forte |
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IN DREAM-WORLD.
I dream'd that I, being dead a hundred years,(In dream-world, death is free from waking fears)
Stood in a City, in the market-place,
And saw a snowy marble Statuette,
Little, but delicately carven, set
Within a corner-niche. The populace
Look'd at it now and then in passing-by,
And some with praise. “Who sculptured it?” said I,
And then my own name sounded in mine ears;
And, gently waking, in my bed I lay,
With mind contented, in the newborn day.
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