William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.
You Pleasing Dreams of Love and Sweet DelightJohn Dryden (16311700)
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Appear before this slumbering virgin’s sight;
Soft visions set her free
From mournful piety.
Let her sad thoughts from heaven retire,
And let the melancholy love
Of those remoter joys above
Give place to your more sprightly fire.
Let purling streams be in her fancy seen,
And flowery meads, and vales of cheerful green,
And in the midst of deathless groves
Soft sighing wishes lie,
And smiling hopes fast by,
And just beyond them ever-laughing loves.