WAKING DREAMS
by: Charles Godfrey Leland
(1824-1903)
- HAT thought
is no reality,
Oft waking with a start, we find;
But from reality take thought,
- How little then remains behind.
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- I walk the greenwood all alone,
And thou in spirit by my side;
Ah, then thou art indeed my own,
A something more than earthly bride.
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- A dead leaf falls, the vision flies
Like morning mist from mountain stream,
- Yet take that vision from my life,
And life itself were but a dream!
"Waking Dreams" is reprinted
from The Music-Lesson of Confucius and Other Poems. Charles
Godfrey Leland. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1872. |
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