When Darkness Fades

In dreams -
You come and we converse, but -
Only about things we must.
From childhood memories,
To things that I have never seen;
From battlefields and raging seas -
To butterflies and pretty things, but -
All of these things, I know, will die away
When darkness fades into day.

                                                      ~ Derick W.

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To F -

BELOVED! amid the earnest woes
That crowd around my earthly path -
(Drear path, alas! where grows
Not even one lonely rose) -
My soul at least a solace hath
In dreams of thee, and therein knows
An Eden of bland repose.

And thus thy memory is to me
Like some enchanted far-off isle
In some tumultuous sea -
Some ocean throbbing far and free
With storms - but where meanwhile
Serenest skies continually
Just o'er that one bright island smile.

                                            ~ Edgar Allan Poe

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