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A.CHILD’S DREAM.

By BERNARD BARTON, Eso.


What know we of the glorious sights which bless an infant’s dream ?

Or, could we guess them, what more meet to be a poet’s theme?

The hope that e’en a glimpse of such my numbers might make known,

To fond Imagination brings a day-dream of its own.

Tis of a child of. five years old, upon whose peaceful sleep

Fair visions of another world with silent foot- steps creep;

Soft as the dew on summer flowers, or moon- light on the sea, ~

The influence of that blissful dream to Bane seems to be.

The cheek, upon the pillow prest, wears joy’s delightful tinge, The eyes are clos’d, yet joy’s bright tear steals through the eyelids’ fringe; B

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