SONGS AND LYRICAL POEMS.

DREAMS.

DREAMS that I dream-sweet dreams!
The length of a crowded street,
A light form tripping to me,
That makes my full heart beat;
And a meeting that, thought of, seems
Too sweet for a thing of dreams:
Dreams that I dream-sweet dreams!

Dreams that I dream-wild dreams!
A looking in tearful eyes,

In eyes that for love of me

Will not utter the soul's wild cries;
And a last farewell that seems

Too bitter for only dreams:

Dreams that I dream-wild dreams!

A SAILOR'S SONG.

WOULD you be a sailor's wife? "Beware!

66 Would

you share a sailor's life? "Take care!

"For, oh! a sailor's life must be

Spent away on the far, far sea,

"And little of him his wife may see

"Not she."

Yet still she cried, "Whate'er betide,

"A sailor's wife I'll be ;

"For the winds with health his brown cheeks fill,

"And the sea's fresh life is in him still,

"Not the land's weak heart: say what you will, "A sailor's wife I'll be."