The Ivory Gate

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Dreaming in the dark,

Your vision comes upon my lonely slumber,

Ere the soaring lark

Is singing in the golden halls of day!

Over me you bow,

With tender words and kisses without number,

And heart for ever growing fonder;

Until the darkness flees away,

And all the visions wander

Into the portal yonder!

'Tis fair and great, the Ivory Gate,

Where dreams are born;

Fairer far falsehoods are

Then the truth, that comes by the Portal of Horn!

For half a night I gather delight,

In face of Fate -

Then you pass with the dreams, alas!

Into the Ivory Gate! The Ivory Gate!

Shall a morning dawn

When kinder light, that does not leave me lonely,

When, the veil withdrawn,

Will give me back the vision plain and clear?

Will you hear my vows,

And come to love me, not in shadow only,

Till years have flown, as flies the swallow,

And hand in hand we go, my dear,

Our happy dreams to follow,

In the dreamland hollow?

Though fair and great the Ivory Gate,

Where dreams are born,

Fairer far sights there are

In the truth, that comes by the Portal of Horn!

And day and night shall gather delight,

Both soon and late,

Till we will go, with the love we know,

Into the Ivory Gate!

The marvelous, mystical Ivory Gate!

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