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DREAMLAND by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS

First Line: IN WONDERFUL DREAMLAND WHERE LOVERS ARE FREE
Last Line: NOT ONLY FOR TIME, BUT FOR ETERNITY.
Subject(s): DREAMS; LOVE; PASSION; SLEEP; NIGHTMARES;

In wonderful Dreamland where lovers are free
To dwell in air castles, my dreams are of thee;
Untold, love, forever those secrets shall be,
For visits to Dreamland none other may see.

Morpheus, the keeper, doth open for me
The innermost chambers of love's fantasy;
'Tis there that I revel together with thee,
Thy lovely sweet beauty with rapture I see.

The blush on thy cheek 'neath love's tender caress,
The droop of thy lashes with nature's undress;
Alluring, and yielding, to love's holy fire,
The play of thy passion when moved with desire.

Love's dreams are forever a fathomless well,
Delightful, refreshing, beyond words to tell;
Thy love and thy passion, both bind me to thee
With chains that are golden in captivity.

As thy heart surrenders completely to me,
I would that thy coming were reality;
My love then forever thy refuge would be,
Not only for time, but for eternity.



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