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Stephen C. (1826-1864)

Beautiful Dreamer

1Beautiful dreamer, wake me,
and dewdrops are waiting for thee;
3Sounds of the rude world in the day,
4Lull'd by the have all pass'd a way!

dreamer, queen of my song,
6List while I woo thee soft melody;
7Gone are the cares of life's throng, --
8Beautiful dreamer, unto me!
9Beautiful awake unto me!

dreamer, out on the sea
11Mermaids are the wild lorelie;
12Over the vapors are borne,
13Waiting to fade at the coming morn.

dreamer, beam on my heart,
15E'en as the on the streamlet and sea;
16Then all clouds of sorrow depart, --
dreamer, awake unto me!
18Beautiful dreamer, awake me!

Online text copyright 2003, Ian Lancashire for the Department of English, of Toronto.
Published by the Web Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.

Original text: Beautiful Dreamer, "the last song ever written" by Stephen C. Foster. but a few days previous to his death (New York: W. A. Pond, 1864). Facsimile in Stephen Foster, Household Songs, Earlier American Music 12, introduction by H. Wiley Hitchcock (New York: Da Capo Press, 1973): 89-93. M780.82 E13 no. 12 Toronto Metro Public Reference Library.
First date: 1864
RPO poem editor: Ian
RP RPO 1998.
Recent 1:2002/4/27

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