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Stephen C. (1826-1864)

Dreamer Serenade

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

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

dreamer, out on the sea
11Mermaids are chaunting the wild
the streamlet 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 will all of sorrow depart, --
17Beautiful dreamer, unto me!
18Beautiful dreamer, awake me!

Online copyright 2003, Ian Lancashire 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 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.
First publication 1864
RPO poem Ian Lancashire
RP RPO 1998.
Recent editing:

Composition 1864
Rhyme: ababb

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