Welcomee back - Nun's meditation

It's over a year since my last publications and nearly 30K visits in those last few years. That's a lot. Thanx for all of you. You have motivated me to continue my work here.
As from today I'm going to pay more attention and publish more regularly.



 "Nun's meditation"






A DREAM


In visions of the dark night
    I have dreamed of joy departed--
  But a waking dream of life and light
    Hath left me broken-hearted.

  Ah! what is not a dream by day
    To him whose eyes are cast
  On things around him with a ray
    Turned back upon the past?



  That holy dream--that holy dream,
    While all the world were chiding,
  Hath cheered me as a lovely beam,
    A lonely spirit guiding.


  What though that light, thro' storm and night,
    So trembled from afar--
  What could there be more purely bright
    In Truth's day – star?


Edgar Allan POE     
  A.D. 1837