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Stephen C. (1826-1864)

Beautiful Serenade

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

5Beautiful dreamer, of my song,
6List while I woo thee with melody;
7Gone are the cares of busy throng, --
8Beautiful dreamer, awake me!
dreamer awake unto me!

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

dreamer, beam on my heart,
15E'en as the morn on the streamlet and
16Then all clouds of sorrow depart, --
17Beautiful dreamer, unto me!
dreamer, awake unto me!

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

Original text: Beautiful Dreamer, "the last song ever written" by Stephen C. Foster. Composed 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. Hitchcock (New York: Da Capo Press, 1973): 89-93. M780.82 E13 no. 12 Toronto Metro Public Reference Library.
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RPO poem Ian Lancashire
RP RPO 1998.
Recent 1:2002/4/27

Composition 1864
Rhyme: aabb

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