| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | | II. A Dream | | By Edmund Ollier (1827–1886) |
| | | A MAN stood on a barren mountain-peak | |
| In the night, and cried, “O world of heavy gloom! | |
| O sunless world! O universal tomb! | |
| Blind, cold, mechanic sphere, wherein I seek | |
| In vain for Life and Love, till Hope grows weak, | 5 |
| And falters towards Chaos! Vast, blank doom! | |
| Huge darkness in a narrow prison-room! | |
| Thou art dead,—dead!” Yet, ere he ceased to speak, | |
| Across the level ocean, in the East, | |
| The moon-dawn grew; and all that mountain’s side | 10 |
| Rose, newly-born from empty dusk. Fields, trees, | |
| And deep glen-hollows, as the light increased, | |
| Seemed vital; and from heaven, bare and wide, | |
| The moon’s white soul looked over lands and seas. | | | | |
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