Alfred Austin Dream Quotations

Falling stars are high examples sent To warn, not lure. Gross fancy says they are Substantial meteors; but that is not so. They are the merest phantasies of Night, When she's asleep, and, dimly visited By past effects, she dreams of Lucifer Hurled out of Heaven.

My virgin sense of sound was steeped In the music of young streams; And roses through the casement peeped, And scented all my dreams.