52 FRIENDS DEPARTED

THE LAND OF DREAMS "Awake, awake, my little boy!

Thou wast thy mother’s only joy;

Why dost thou weep in thy gentle sleep?

O wake! thy father does thee keep."

--"O what land is the Land of Dreams?

What are its mountains, and what are its streams?

O father! I saw my mother there Among the lilies by waters fair.

"Among the lambs, clothed in white, She walk’d with her Thomas in sweet delight:

I wept for joy; like a dove I mourn:-- O when shall I again return!"

--"Dear child! I also by pleasant streams Have wander’d all night in the Land of Dreams:-- But, though calm and warm the waters wide, I could not get to the other side."

--"Father, O father! what do we here, In this land of unbelief and fear?-- The Land of Dreams is better far, Above the light of the morning star."

_--W. Blake_