Advertisement

DREAMS.

With sun-browned cheeks and lustrous hair.

Or sometimes in a little boat

My love and I together float

Upon the smooth immensity

Of some soft-heaving tropic sea,

Advertisement

In unconcerned idleness,

With naught to question or confess,

With nothing but the vault above

To circumscribe our wealth of love,

And nothing but the main around

Our idle happiness to bound;

And sailing onward in our quest

Of peace, we find within the west,

Whose purple hazes shut us in

From all this world's tumultuous din,

Advertisement