I Dreamt My Lady Came And Found Me Dead

I dreamt my lady came

And found me dead

She breathed such life

With kisses in my lips

That I revived

And was an emperor

Sacred and sweet

Was all I saw in her

I know when one is dead

And when one lives

Her blood is settled

And her joints are stiff

Death lies on her

Like an untimely frost

Upon the sweetest flower of all the field

I saw her coral lips to move

And with her breath

She did perfume the air

And I revived

But was no emperor

Sacred and sweet

Was all I saw in her