It is a strange light that softly gleams
Of ruby sun within my dreams
And waves of crystal crash and burn
While shells of lives and losses turn

Great women’s faces, pale or tanned
Take mind from water to dry land
And though the shades of life will drift
All minds I thought up fly and lift

A thousand hearts all dreamed by me
Brought back from life and memory
Will never take that sinful taste
Of my real life and all its waste

Instead their dreams envelop mine
And I love so much inside my mind.
While those I see in life will go
My dreams forever last I know.