by Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888)

Come to me in my dreams
 (Sung text for setting by A. Somervell)
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Language: English 
Come to me in my dreams, and then
By day I shall be well again!
For then the night will more than pay
The hopeless longing of the day.

Come, as thou cam'st a thousand times,
A messenger from radiant climes,
And smile on thy new world, and be
As kind to others as to me.

Or, as thou never cam'st in sooth,
Come now, and let me dream it truth;
And part my hair, and kiss my brow,
And say - My love! why sufferest thou? 

Come to me in my dreams, and then
By day I shall be well again!
For then the night will more than pay
The hopeless longing of the day.

Composition:

    Set to music by Arthur Somervell, Sir (1863 - 1937), "Come to me in my dreams", published 1935, copyright © 1936 [ voice, piano ], from Three Songs with Piano, no. 3, Boosey & Hawkes, confirmed with Century of English Song, Volume VIII Association of English Singers and Speakers, Printed by Good Music, Tewkesbury, 2016, Page 10.

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Line count: 16
Word count: 116