The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-03-25
DREAM.

The early moonlight, faint and mock
Fell In white lines across her bofs'.
mud turned to gems on lash and cheek
The toars that had but now been shed.
Bleep, coming with the shadows, brought
A slow relief from g%riGvous thought.
II dulled the present sharp distress,
The sense Of loss too hard TO bear.
The haunting thought Of loneliness,
The imminencc Of nntried care.
She lost remembrance Of the pain
That dawn would surely bring again.
She lost the world no tardily
Another consciousness was born,
And then she dreamed that gho was free,
Wandering beyond her life, f%OrlOrn;
And roul and body still were wed,
Although 1t seemed that she was dead,
Some mighty power, unseen and strong,
Had cast her in an angry gea
She btrOvo 10 breast its pillows long;
Aud, an che struggled YEARLY,
She saw a low black line Of shore,
with lights upon II, j1et before.
And, striving still more urgently,
She almost reached the wished-fOr land
Then a great wave rose In tho goa,
And bore her over rocks aud strand
Rolled back, and left her thcre, alone
And helpless in Il land unknown,
But white phe lay there, torn and bruised,
And dripping with the chilly brine,
Che seemed to see, with sense confused,
The darkness round about her thine
10 feol a touch that charmed all pain
From broken franc and weary brain.
And one bent near with plying face,
30 grave, 70 gentle, and 10 sweet,
30 full Of promise and Of grace,
She smiled, while lying at lliB feet
Az hOnrsiCk children, home OuCU more.
Forget the grief that came before.
He led her to tho inner land
Tho night was hard beBct by day
She was content TO hold lIig hand.
OF seemed there were no words to say,
Because she understood 70 well
Whatever there could be to tGl,)
She saw the place was glad and bright,
with welcome etranRcncsa heaven fraught;
hhc had not known II by tn" sight,
And get II was not new to thought
All happy living things wore there,
Refined, to suit "a liner air.
A little bird flew from above
And softly IT. upon her head
bDe know 1t for u pettCd dOyo
she loyod in childhood, long since dead;
The Chribt smiled, Az phc spoke its name,
And said, We Kept it TIL you came"
NHl lL'TH were MOWERS ana IfbeH ana tky--
All wraiths Of Ollcn memory;
Each tiny detail, far and nigh,
with EOlnc past beauty did agree.
Tue Christ said, "Sec! they aro tho same:
We Kept them for You Til you %caIne.'
Then suddenly she heard Il voice
Lake some dear Aforementioned song;
II made her very heart rejoice
At comfort it had wanted long.
Slc knew, ere sight could satisfy.
He she had mOnrned for stood close by.
Again her radiant leader Hnited--
JhG smile told more than words could pay
lyon needed not TO mourn. my child,
For God Keeps all he tahos away
Again He said, "Ihcy are tho.same;
lie kept thcm for you till you came"
Then lived n JOY that naught can tell
Delight that filled in0nity;
Love, with no former parallel,
An utter peace that Heaven made free,
But, breaking through this glimpse Of grace,
A murmur seemed to fill the place.
Tho vision faded, passed away,
And left the darkness blank and old;
She saw the light Of dawniug day
Far in the east. Tho air WAS cold
The cocks shrill warning Of the sun
Told Of another day begun.