If I should... — The original is more expressive: —
“Let me count them — more than the sand they are many:
I have awaked — and still with thee.”
With the countless mysteries of creation and providence the poet is so occupied, that they are his first waking thought; or, perhaps, as the Hebrew suggests, his dreams are continued into his early thoughts.
“Is not the vision He? tho’ He be not that which He seems?
Dreams are true while they last; and do we not live in dreams?”
TENNYSON: Higher Pantheism.