Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...time shall pass like a dream...
...dream of the days...
...VICTORY! They call forth our deep regret and unaffected tears. The enthusiastic cheers, the singing of 'Auld Lang Syne,' each student grasping a brother's hand, - all, all have passed away, and will soon be buried with the football beneath the sod, to live hereafter only as a dream in our memories and in the College annals. Brothers, pardon my emotion, and if I have kept you already too long, pardon me this also. On such an occasion as this but few words can be spoken, but those must be spoken, for they are the outburst of grieved spirits...
That life's dear dream's fulfilment so should fail...
...WHAT is it? What has happened?" cried Edith. She, poor girl, did not dream what a terrible revelation had suddenly been vouchsafed me. Her face was white and shocked as my own; and, indeed, how should it be otherwise, seeing that I was so profoundly, mysteriously affected? For a moment it seemed as if the whole world was whirling away from me, and I was standing alone in space; I thought - if my startled brain did not in that first moment of incredulous and tragic bewilderment refuse to think at all - that I was certainly, must surely be, absolutely...