It Was A Dream

An 1860 lieder song for soprano or tenor
English words by George Cooper
Music by Eduard Lassen

Based on a poem by German poet Heinrich Heine


The sheet music:


Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:


Lyrics

  1. I saw again my lovely fatherland
    The oaks that tower broad and grand
    The clear and purling stream
    It was a dream
  2. I prest the cheek of one I loved in youth
    And heard her words of hope and truth
    Her eyes on me did beam
    It was a dream
  3. Tho’ far from home, my heart, my soul was there
    My life no longer knew a care
    How brief that joyful gleam
    It was a dream

Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: