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.
       
      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.
       
      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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