Alfred, Lord Tennyson - If Sleep and d**h be Truly One lyrics

If Sleep and d**h be truly one, And every spirit's folded bloom Through all its intervital gloom In some long trance should slumber on; Unconscious of the sliding hour, Bare of the body, might it last, And silent traces of the past Be all the color of the flower: So then were nothing lost to man; So that still garden of the souls In many a figured leaf enrolls The total world since life began; And love will last as pure and whole As when he loved me here in Time, And at the spiritual prime Rewaken with the dawning soul.