I Dream'd in a Dream

"I Dream'ed in a Dream" is the first song of Jonathan's Clark Schwabe's song cycle A Clear Midnight.

Date: 2005Composer: Jonathan Clarke SchwabeText: Walt WhitmanSong Collection: A Clear Midnight

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I Dream’ed in a Dream
by Walt Whitman

I Dream’ed in a dream,
I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of
The earth;
I dream’d that was the new City of Friends;
Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love—it led the rest;
It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city,
And in all their looks and words.

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