Poems (Ripley)/'Twas But a Dream
'TWAS BUT A DREAM
The moonlight rested on the hills, and swept along the valleys; The pale stars glimmered out afar, within the distant heavens: We stood together, you and I, We heeded not the moonlit sky, Or the stars, that watched us from on high.
I read the lovelight in your eyes, although your lips were silent: And as I read, I thought I knew the secrets of the angels; Your head, it lay upon my breast, And there it lay in perfect rest, My little love, in perfect rest.
CHORUS
'Twas but a dream! 'Twas but a dream! I woke to find it but a dream! But I know in heaven I shall find My little love for God is kind: Where all sweet life is but a dream—A perfect dream; a perfect dream; Where all sweet life is one long dream Of love; a perfect dream of love!