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Stephen C. (1826-1864)

Dreamer Serenade

1Beautiful dreamer, unto 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 soft
7Gone are the of life's busy throng, --
8Beautiful dreamer, awake me!
9Beautiful dreamer unto me!

dreamer, out on the sea
11Mermaids are chaunting the wild
12Over the streamlet are borne,
13Waiting to at the bright coming morn.

14Beautiful dreamer, on my heart,
15E'en as the morn on the streamlet and
16Then will all of sorrow depart, --
17Beautiful dreamer, awake me!
18Beautiful dreamer, awake me!

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

Original text: Beautiful Dreamer, "the last song ever written" by Stephen C. Foster. Composed but a few days 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 publication 1864
RPO editor: Ian Lancashire
RP RPO 1998.
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