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Stephen C. (1826-1864)

Beautiful Dreamer

dreamer, wake unto me,
2Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for
of the rude 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 soft melody;
7Gone are the cares of busy throng, --
8Beautiful dreamer, unto me!
dreamer awake 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 morn on the streamlet and
16Then will all clouds of depart, --
17Beautiful dreamer, awake me!
18Beautiful dreamer, awake me!

Online text copyright 2003, Ian for the Department of English, University of Toronto.
Published by the Web Group, Information 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. Wiley Hitchcock (New York: Da Capo Press, 1973): 89-93. M780.82 E13 no. 12 Toronto Metro Reference Library.
First publication date:
RPO poem Ian Lancashire
RP RPO 1998.
Recent editing:

date: 1864
Rhyme: aabb

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