Once In A Dream (For Once I Dreamed Of You) We Stood Together In An Open Field; Above Our Heads Two Swift-Winged Pigeons Wheeled, Sporting At Ease And Courting Full In View. When Loftier Still A Broadening Darkness Flew, Down-Swooping, And A Ravenous Hawk Revealed; Too Weak To Fight, Too Fond To Fly, They Yield; So Farewell Life And Love And Pleasures New. Then As Their Plumes Fell Fluttering To The Ground, Their Snow-White Plumage Flecked With Crimson Drops, I Wept, And Thought I Turned Towards You To Weep: But You Were Gone; While Rustling Hedgerow Tops Bent In A Wind Which Bore To Me A Sound Of Far-Off Piteous Bleat Of Lambs And Sheep.