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Stephen C. (1826-1864)

Beautiful Serenade

1Beautiful dreamer, wake me,
2Starlight and are waiting for thee;
3Sounds of the rude 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, --
dreamer, awake unto me!
9Beautiful awake unto me!

dreamer, out on the sea
11Mermaids are chaunting the wild
12Over the streamlet are borne,
to fade at the bright coming morn.

14Beautiful dreamer, on my heart,
15E'en as the morn on the and sea;
will all clouds of sorrow depart, --
17Beautiful dreamer, unto me!
18Beautiful dreamer, awake me!

Online text copyright 2003, Ian for the Department of English, University of Toronto.
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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 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 publication 1864
RPO poem editor: Ian
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