Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A DREAM Enclosed once, in arms of soothing sleep, I heard a voice peal out in loud command: Come, go with me, thou son of Mortal Man And look on one whose works have made him great. I listened, thrilled with doubt and apprehension, I trembled, tho the voice seemed soft and kind. But then mine eyes beheld a godlike form That seemed to fill all space with beams of light. He spoke, and strains of purest harmony Poured smoothly from the swift and fluent lips. Fear not my friend, he murmured gently, I bear no tho’t of harm to fallen Man. I only would that to me were entrusted, The power to make him what he once has been. My name is Fame, I rule, with power supreme, O'er shades of those, who once the scepter swayed. Cast off the weight of earthly fallacies And train thine eyes to look on heavenly scenes. He paused and turned, the sound died down. Then led the way, like Hermes thru the air, I followed, thrilled with awe and expectation, And filled with tho'ts that lie too deep for words. The earth soon fades thru fleecy clouds of mist. The planets pass in waves of liquid gold. But then I feel a change come in the ether, And know that we are close to scenes of bliss. Once more I hear the soft and silvery sound. My guide turns round and speaks again to me: In this fair clime, Departed Greatness now Lives free from tho'ts of sorrow and of pain. Come now and see, and seeing, understand That graves are not for souls that cannot die. We came at last, into a pillared temple Of massive marble, vast and beautiful. And round the hall, as tho in consultation, The lights of ages, proudly sit enthroned. And all eyes turn unconsciously To where the brightest one in all the throng Sits calm and still?immovable? His presence shadowing all the lesser spher…
