The Silken Tassel/Love’s Dream
Love’s Dream
Let Love but once in the skies of the spring
Shed his undiluted tears,
For soon the autumn with light and shade
Will crop in doubts and fears;
Let the summer blow, and his smiles will bring
To him golden flowers of joy;
Ere the red bloom withers and green leaves fade,
Let none Love's dream destroy!
Shed his undiluted tears,
For soon the autumn with light and shade
Will crop in doubts and fears;
Let the summer blow, and his smiles will bring
To him golden flowers of joy;
Ere the red bloom withers and green leaves fade,
Let none Love's dream destroy!
Love lives in a land of lily and rose,
And his dreams are budding flowers;
Where Life is honey and Hope is heaven,
And Tears are sunlight-showers;
His vision of joy like the rainbow glows,
And his thoughts like the moonlit stream:
Oh where is the heaven so richly given,
But to Love's glimmering Dream?
And his dreams are budding flowers;
Where Life is honey and Hope is heaven,
And Tears are sunlight-showers;
His vision of joy like the rainbow glows,
And his thoughts like the moonlit stream:
Oh where is the heaven so richly given,
But to Love's glimmering Dream?