Only a Dream

Only a Dream!

It floated thro’

The sky of a lonely sleep

As floats a gleam

Athwart the Blue

Of a golden clouded Deep.

Only a Dream!

I calmly slept.

Meseems I called a name;

I woke; and, waking, I think I wept

And called — and called the same.

Only a Dream!

Graves have no ears;

They give not back the dead;

They will not listen to the saddest tears

That ever may be shed.

Only a Dream!

Graves keep their own;

They have no hearts to hear;

But the loved will come

From their Heaven-Home

To smile on the sleeper's tear.