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THE LIGHT OF DREAM by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN

First Line: WHEN EVENING COMES UPON THE SKIES
Last Line: A DREAM TO LIGHT THE WAY!
Subject(s): DREAMS; NIGHTMARES;

When evening comes upon the skies
And sets one star agleam
Sleep shuts the sunshine from my eyes
And lights them with a dream.

Then silence folds its wings above,
But not the whispering wind,
And though I sleep the voice of love
Makes music in my mind.

The dark a menace cannot be --
The journey to the day, --
Love ever to companion me,
A dream to light the way!



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