Stardust

The speaker is remembering a love that has ended or become distant. A song brings back the early days of the relationship, when kisses felt inspiring and the speaker felt close to the beloved. The mood moves from loneliness and longing toward a quieter kind of comfort: the love may be over, but its memory remains.

“Haunts my reverie” means the melody keeps returning to the speaker’s daydreams; “haunts” suggests an image or thought that is hard to escape. “The stardust of a song” is a poetic image: the song holds something beautiful and precious from the past, like tiny traces of a lost world. The garden wall, bright stars, roses, and nightingale create a romantic, almost fairy-tale setting for the remembered embrace.

The speaker says the dream is “in vain,” which suggests that reunion is unlikely, though the lyrics do not explain why. Still, the memory stays “in my heart.” This could mean the song offers genuine consolation, or that the speaker is taking comfort in an idealized version of the past. The ending holds both feelings at once: the love is gone from the present, but its melody continues within the speaker.