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KINDLY VISION by OTTO JULIUS BIERBAUM

First Line: NOT IN SLEEP I SAW IT, BUT IN DAYLIGHT
Last Line: FULL OF BEAUTY WAITING TILL WE ENTER.
Subject(s): BEAUTY; HEARTS; LOVE;
NOT in sleep I saw it, but in daylight,
Clear and beautiful by day before me:
Saw a meadow overgrown with daisies,
Round a cottage white in green embowered;
Statues of the gods gleam in the arbor.
And the lady that I walk with loves me,
With a quiet spirit in the coolness
And the peacefulness of this white dwelling,
Full of beauty waiting till we enter.



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