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23 A CHILD’s DREAM.


Or look’st thou on the tree of life, whose foliage yet may heal The nations, and the earlier curse of Eden’s tree repeal? Or gazest thou upon that stream, like clearest crystal bright,

Proceeding from Jehovah`s throne and glorious from his light?

Vain though it seem to ask or think, what sight and forms divine May rise in slumber`s tranquil hour on spirits pure as thine;

- Not wholly so, if while he sings, within the minstrel’s soul The influence of such heavenly themes may. earth-born cares control.

Sleep, happy dreamer, sleep in peace; and may- thy mental pow

By visions such as these be nurs’d for future waking hours;

That so from death`s last dreamless sleep thy Spirit may ascend,

To know the fulness of all joy in_ glory without

end!

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