The Angel - Greg Brown

I dreamt a dream!

What can it mean?

And that I was a maiden Queen

Guarded by an Angel mild:

Witless woe was ne’er beguiled!

And I wept both night and day

And he wiped my tears away;

And I wept both day and night

And hid from him my heart’s delight

So he took his wings, and fled;

Then the morn blushed rosy red

I dried my tears, and armed my fears

With ten thousand shields and spears

Soon my Angel came again;

I was armed, he came in vain;

For the time of youth was fled

And grey hairs were on my head