To Anna - Sara Jackson-Holman

Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?

This ship has sailed, and I’ve bid farewell to the shores familiar to me Gravity releases its hold on my tired feet

Luminescent moonlight poured upon the sails

And I had a dream, I had a dream

We were running through the tall grass together

If I had a wish, if I had a wish

I would wish to stay forever and ever with you

With you, oh But childhood came and left us like a dream

I toss my anchor recklessly overboard

I want to stay in the starry sky a little while more

When you bring me down, will you bring me down softly?

I’ll open my eyes, and I’ll see a world so strange to me And I had a dream, I had a dream

Our hair was wild, our feet bare and dirty

If I had a wish, if I had a wish

I would take us to the time we were careless and free

Careless and free

Careless and free

And free

But childhood came and left us like a dream