I dreamed of golden days that never were 
And when I woke it was as though my mind 
Received the music of a distant year 
Soaring singing in sweet iambic rhyme 
And I heard muses with their lyres sing 
And climbed a mountain where old moonstones lay 
And as their glowing grew I saw a scene 
A thousand ships before me in the bay 
And soldiers and their lovers watching for the day 
And fill around the wild music ringing 
And when I went to write it down 
The words remelted into sound 
The concert in my mind was gone 
And left my soul singing with no song
 
©1972 William H. Southwell
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