Full Lyrics
On that far off shore of being,
Whence the subtlest feelings flow,
Listen to the mystic pealing,
From the land of dream and glow.
Peal, O sweettoned bells of dreamland,
Far beyond life’s restless flow,
Soft thy tones are sinking, swelling,
As the winds of fancy blow.
Undefined, elusive ever,
Fairy echoes fill the air,
From the sweettoned bells of dreamland,
Wakened into beauty there.
See the shells of fairy boatmen,
Hear the songs the oarsmen sing,
See the reefs and caves of coral,
Where the weeds and mosses cling.
Purple waves forever flowing,
Melt the murmuring shores along,
Birds of more than mortal beauty,
Thrill with more than mortal song.
