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Stephen C. Foster (1826-1864)
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Beautiful Dreamer Serenade
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1Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me,
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2Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee;
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3Sounds of the rude world heard in the day,
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4Lull'd by the moonlight have all pass'd a way!
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5Beautiful dreamer, queen of my song,
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6List while I woo thee with soft melody;
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7Gone are the cares of life's busy throng, --
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8Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!
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9Beautiful dreamer awake unto me!
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10Beautiful dreamer, out on the sea
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11Mermaids are chaunting the wild lorelie;
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12Over the streamlet vapors are borne,
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13Waiting to fade at the bright coming morn.
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14Beautiful dreamer, beam on my heart,
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15E'en as the morn on the streamlet and sea;
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16Then will all clouds of sorrow depart, --
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17Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!
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18Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!
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Online text copyright ¨Ï 2003, Ian Lancashire for the Department of English, University of Toronto.
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Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.
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Original text: Beautiful Dreamer, "the last song ever written" by Stephen C. Foster. Composed but a few days previous to his death (New York: W. A. Pond, 1864). Facsimile in Stephen Foster, Household Songs, Earlier American Music 12, introduction by H. Wiley Hitchcock (New York: Da Capo Press, 1973): 89-93. M780.82 E13 no. 12 Toronto Metro Public Reference Library.
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First publication date: 1864
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RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
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RP edition: RPO 1998.
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Recent editing: 1:2002/4/27
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Composition date: 1864
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Rhyme: aabb ababb
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