Dame Joan Sutherland - I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls

1958 performance for the queen. My parents married that year., she from England and he of an Irish born father( this piece written by an Irish composer for a 19th century opera).

I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls
With vassals and serfs at my side,
And of all who assembled within those walls
That I was the hope and the pride.
I had riches all too great to count
And a high ancestral name.

But I also dreamt which pleased me most
That you loved me still the same,
That you loved me
You loved me still the same,
That you loved me
You loved me still the same.

I dreamt that suitors sought my hand,
That knights upon bended knee
And with vows no maidens heart could withstand,
They pledged their faith to me.
And I dreamt that one of that noble host
Came forth my hand to claim.

But I also dreamt which charmed me most
That you loved me still the same
That you loved me
You loved me still the same,
That you loved me
You loved me still the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Dreamt_I_Dwelt_in_Marble_Halls

Lewis Carrol's parody

I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls,
And each damp thing that creeps and crawls
went wobble-wobble on the walls...

Orwell's take on it

I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls,
And woke to find it true;
I wasn't born for an age like this;
Was Smith? Was Jones? Were you?

So every generation has a new take on this. One sees the coldness of the old mansions in a time before central heating, the next generations are socialists. Nowadays it is perhaps so outmoded that it is just a love song again that no one ever heard of and not a well known opera. Parody shows more about the person doing it than about the object as does every commentary, analysis. Everything exists in and of itself freely as in the history tedtalk about ancient civilizations linked below. We bring to something what we see. This is deeply philosophical.