If I had but two little wings
And were a little feathery bird,
To
you I'd fly,
my dear!
But thoughts like these are
idle things,
And
I stay here.
But in my sleep to you I fly:
I'm always with you in my sleep!
The world is all one's own.
But then one wakes, and where am I?
All, all alone.
Sleep stays not, though a monarch bids:
So I love to wake ere break of day:
For though my sleep be gone,
Yet while 'tis dark, one shuts one's lids,
And still dreams on.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge