<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416725" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Only A Dream</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Only a dream!<br>Her head is bent<br>Over the keys of the instrument,<br>While her trembling fingers go astray<br>In the foolish tune she tries to play.<br>He smiles in his heart, though his deep, sad eyes<br>Never change to a glad surprise<br>As he finds the answer he seeks confessed<br>In glowing features, and heaving breast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Only a dream!<br>Though the fete is grand,<br>And a hundred hearts at her command,<br>She takes no part, for her soul is sick<br>Of the Coquette's art and the Serpent's trick,--<br>She someway feels she would like to fling<br>Her sins away as a robe, and spring<br>Up like a lily pure and white,<br>And bloom alone for HIM to-night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Only a dream<br>That the fancy weaves.<br>The lids unfold like the rose's leaves,<br>And the upraised eyes are moist and mild<br>As the prayerful eyes of a drowsy child.<br>Does she remember the spell they once<br>Wrought in the past a few short months?<br>Haply not--yet her lover's eyes<br>Never change to the glad surprise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Only a dream!<br>He winds her form<br>Close in the coil of his curving arm,<br>And whirls her away in a gust of sound<br>As wild and sweet as the poets found<br>In the paradise where the silken tent<br>Of the Persian blooms in the Orient,--<br>While ever the chords of the music seem<br>Whispering sadly,--'Only a dream!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Whitcomb+Riley">James Whitcomb Riley</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416725" data-title="Only A Dream de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="Only a dream! Her head is bent Over the keys of the instrument, While her trembling fingers go astray In the foolish tune she tries to play. He smiles in his heart, though his deep, sad eyes Never change to a glad surprise As he finds the answer h..."></div> </div> </div>

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