It sometimes comes into my head

It sometimes comes into my head
That we may dream, may dream when we are dead,
But I am far from sure we do.
O that it were so,
O that it were so, then my rest
Would be, would be indeed among the blest,
I should for ever dream,
I should for ever dream of you.

by Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) , no title, from The Works of Walter Savage Landor, Volume II, published 1846

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Frank Bridge (1879-1941) , "O that it were so!", published 1913. [voice and piano]
by Bruno Siegfried Huhn (1871-1950) , "That it were so", published <<1940. [voice and piano]

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