DREAMER, SAY
Dreamer, say, will you dream for meA wild sweet dream of a foreign land,Whose border sips of a foaming seaWith lips of coral and silver sand;Where warm winds loll on the shady deeps,Or lave themselves in the tearful mistThe great wild wave of the breaker weepsO’er crags of opal and amethyst?Dreamer, say, will you dream a dreamOf tropic shades in the lands of shine,Where the lily leans o’er an amber streamThat flows like a rill of wasted wine,—Where the palm-trees, lifting their shields of green,Parry the shafts of the Indian sunWhose splintering vengeance falls betweenThe reeds below where the waters run?Dreamer, say, will you dream of loveThat lives in a land of sweet perfume,Where the stars drip down from the skies aboveIn molten spatters of bud and bloom?Where never the weary eyes are wet,And never a sob in the balmy air,And only the laugh of the paroquetBreaks the sleep of the silence there?
Dreamer, say, will you dream for meA wild sweet dream of a foreign land,Whose border sips of a foaming seaWith lips of coral and silver sand;Where warm winds loll on the shady deeps,Or lave themselves in the tearful mistThe great wild wave of the breaker weepsO’er crags of opal and amethyst?Dreamer, say, will you dream a dreamOf tropic shades in the lands of shine,Where the lily leans o’er an amber streamThat flows like a rill of wasted wine,—Where the palm-trees, lifting their shields of green,Parry the shafts of the Indian sunWhose splintering vengeance falls betweenThe reeds below where the waters run?Dreamer, say, will you dream of loveThat lives in a land of sweet perfume,Where the stars drip down from the skies aboveIn molten spatters of bud and bloom?Where never the weary eyes are wet,And never a sob in the balmy air,And only the laugh of the paroquetBreaks the sleep of the silence there?
Dreamer, say, will you dream for meA wild sweet dream of a foreign land,Whose border sips of a foaming seaWith lips of coral and silver sand;Where warm winds loll on the shady deeps,Or lave themselves in the tearful mistThe great wild wave of the breaker weepsO’er crags of opal and amethyst?
Dreamer, say, will you dream for me
A wild sweet dream of a foreign land,
Whose border sips of a foaming sea
With lips of coral and silver sand;
Where warm winds loll on the shady deeps,
Or lave themselves in the tearful mist
The great wild wave of the breaker weeps
O’er crags of opal and amethyst?
Dreamer, say, will you dream a dreamOf tropic shades in the lands of shine,Where the lily leans o’er an amber streamThat flows like a rill of wasted wine,—Where the palm-trees, lifting their shields of green,Parry the shafts of the Indian sunWhose splintering vengeance falls betweenThe reeds below where the waters run?
Dreamer, say, will you dream a dream
Of tropic shades in the lands of shine,
Where the lily leans o’er an amber stream
That flows like a rill of wasted wine,—
Where the palm-trees, lifting their shields of green,
Parry the shafts of the Indian sun
Whose splintering vengeance falls between
The reeds below where the waters run?
Dreamer, say, will you dream of loveThat lives in a land of sweet perfume,Where the stars drip down from the skies aboveIn molten spatters of bud and bloom?Where never the weary eyes are wet,And never a sob in the balmy air,And only the laugh of the paroquetBreaks the sleep of the silence there?
Dreamer, say, will you dream of love
That lives in a land of sweet perfume,
Where the stars drip down from the skies above
In molten spatters of bud and bloom?
Where never the weary eyes are wet,
And never a sob in the balmy air,
And only the laugh of the paroquet
Breaks the sleep of the silence there?