A Dream That Was Not All A Dream.



Through the half-curtained window stole
An Autumn sunset's glow,
As languid on my couch I lay
With pulses weak and low.
  
And then methought a presence stood,
With shining feet and fair,
Amid the waves of golden light
That rippled through the air,
  
And laid upon my heaving breast,
With earnest glance and true,
A babe, whose fair and gentle brow
No shade of sorrow knew.
  
A solemn joy was in my heart,--
Immortal life was given
To Earth, upon her battle-field
To discipline for Heaven.
  
Soft music thrilled the quiet room,--
An unseen host were nigh,
Who left the infant pilgrim at
The threshold of our sky.
  
A new, strange love woke in my heart,
Defying all control,
As on the soft air rose and fell
That birth-hymn for a soul!
  
And now again the Autumn skies,
As on that evening, shine,
When, from a trance of agony,
I woke to joy divine.
  
That boundless love is in my heart,
That birth-hymn on the air;
I clasp in mine, with grateful faith,
A tiny hand in prayer.
  
And bless the God who guides my way,
That, mid this world so wide,
I day by day am walking with
An angel by my side.
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Scheme ABCB XDXD XEXE FGXG XHXH FAXA XIXI FDXD CJXJ
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,065
Words 214
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

Mary Gardiner Horsford

Mary Gardiner born 1824 died 1855. Born Mary L'Hommedieu Gardiner on September 26, 1824, daughter of Samuel and Mary Catherine Gardiner, Mary married Eben Norton Horsford August 4, 1847. She was privately tutored as a young child but later attended the Albany Female Seminary where she met Eben. more…

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