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Dreams

    By Paul Laurence Dunbar



    Dream on, for dreams are sweet:
    Do not awaken!
    Dream on, and at thy feet
    Pomegranates shall be shaken.

    Who likeneth the youth
    Of life to morning?
    'Tis like the night in truth,
    Rose-coloured dreams adorning.

    The wind is soft above,
    The shadows umber.
    (There is a dream called Love.)
    Take thou the fullest slumber!

    In Lethe's soothing stream,
    Thy thirst thou slakest.
    Sleep, sleep; 't is sweet to dream.
    Oh, weep when thou awakest!





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