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ILIA'S DREAM, by                    
First Line: "then startled from her sleep, she spoke"
Last Line: "until my sleep departed -- and, oh! My heart was sore"
Subject(s): Dreams;sisters;sleep;tears; Nightmares


THEN startled from her sleep, she spoke, all tears and deeply moved --
'My sister -- my Eurydice, whom most our father loved!
O listen! for I feel as though no life were in my frame --
Methought while dreaming that a man, a graceful Being came,
And bore me onward through the banks where pleasant willows grew,
Then left me, and I seemed alone in places strange and new:
I sought for thee, my sister, I sought thee far and near,
And yet no path my feet could find -- my heart was full of fear;
And then I heard our father's voice -- these were his
words to me --
"O daughter, there is wretchedness and toil in store for thee,
Ere Fortune from the River rise, then shalt thou be released."
These, sister, were my father's words, and suddenly he ceased.
Nor did his stately form appear to greet my longing eyes;
Though eagerly I stretched my hands to the temples of the skies;
Nor did I cease to weep aloud, and earnestly implore,
Until my sleep departed -- and, oh! my heart was sore!'





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