Full Lyrics
Dream the dream that’s sweetest,
While sleep is on thine eye;
For when the sun thou meetest,
Those visions all shall fly,
Fly like the dews adorning
The ivy leaf by night,
That perish with the morning,
As transient and as bright.
Dream the dream that’s sweetest,
While youth is in thine heart;
When manhood’s noon thou greetest,
Those visions all depart:
The heart is all forsaken
By joys of heav’nly birth;
Then sleep and never waken,
For peace is not of earth.
