And ah, the dream we dreamt that night, together you and I!
Is it fashioned wisely,
To help us or to blind us,
That at each height we gain we turn, and behold a heaven behind us?
R. Buchanan (To David in Heaven).
David Gray was a young poet and a great friend of Buchanan’s. Another verse in the poem is:
In some heaven star-lighted,
Are you now united
Unto the poet-spirits that you loved of English race?
Is Chatterton still dreaming?