All the night long you come to me in dreams, br My lady dear! Ah, wherefore do you so? br Surely it is because you do not know br What tender mercy from your sweet face streams br When thus you visit me, and for awhile br Lift off the load of my great misery br With the compassionate blessing of your smile: br Then I awake for joy, and bitterly br Weep that I did awake; meantime, perchance, br My image, all unconscious, through the trance, br Of your deep slumber has had leave to glide br A senseless phantom, even to your side.