| dc.description.transcription | Aerial Regins of ImaginationFeb 14th1867.Miss SallieIf you will pardon my presumption and deign to read these few lines I will be doubly recompensed for an exhibition of my folly.I will not tax your patience with a long effusion of love sick notions but I must express my most sincere regards to the sister of Jessie and beg her to receive the following lines as a simple token of sincere regard which if it dared might ripen into something else.“When I dream that you love me you’ll surely forgive; Extend not your anger to sleep; For in visions alone your affections can live –I rise,and it leaves me to weepThen Morpheus! envelope my faculties fastShed o’re me your lagnor[sic]benignShould the dream of tonight but resemble the last, What rapture celestial is mine.They tell us that slumber the sister of death, Mortality’semblem is given; To fate how I long to resign my frail breath If this be a foretaste of heaven. Ah! frown not, sweet lady, unbend your softbrow, Nor deem me too happy in thisIf I sin in my dream I atone for it now Thus doom’d but to gaze upon bliss.Though in visions sweet lady, perhaps you may smileOh! think:not my penance deficient. When dreams of your presence my Humblesbeguile To awake will be torture sufficient”S.V.D. | |
