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Stephen C. (1826-1864)

Beautiful Dreamer

1Beautiful dreamer, wake me,
2Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for
3Sounds of the rude world in the day,
4Lull'd by the moonlight all pass'd a way!

5Beautiful dreamer, of my song,
6List while I woo thee soft melody;
7Gone are the cares of busy throng, --
8Beautiful dreamer, unto me!
9Beautiful dreamer awake me!

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

Online text 2003, Ian Lancashire for the Department of English, University of Toronto.
Published by the Web Development Group, Information 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 publication 1864
RPO editor: Ian Lancashire
RP RPO 1998.
Recent 1:2002/4/27

date: 1864
Rhyme: aabb

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