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First Line: I sing to him! I dream he hears
Last Line: He surely heeds my wo!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hale, Sara; Hale, Sarah Josepha


I SING to him! I dream he hears
The song he used to love,
And oft that blessed fancy cheers
And bears my thoughts above.
Ye say, 't is idle thus to dream --
But why believe it so?
It is the spirit's meteor gleam,
To soothe the pang of woe.

Love gives to nature's voice a tone
That true hearts understand, --
The sky, the earth, the forest lone
Are peopled by his wand;
Sweet fancies all our pulses thrill
While gazing on a flower,
And from the gently whisp'ring rill
Are heard the words of power.

I breathe the dear and cherish'd name,
And long-lost scenes arise;
Life's glowing landscape spreads the same
The same Hope's kindling skies; --
The violet bank, the moss-fringed seat
Beneath the drooping tree,
The clock that chimed the hour to meet,
My buried love, with thee; --

O, these are all before me, when
In fancy's realms I rove;
Why urge me to the world again?
Why say the ties of love,
That death's cold, cruel grasp has riven,
Unite no more below?
I'll sing to him, -- for though in heaven.
He surely heeds my wo!





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