I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.
Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
You know, I've had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I've survived it's all because of you.
Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.
I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!
Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair; A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.
If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.