Poems (Kennedy)/Sweet o' The Day

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4590610Poems — Sweet o' The DaySara Beaumont Kennedy

THE DREAM ROAD
WHERE does it run, the road to my Dreams?
  Oh, ever and ever so far,
Where the meadows meet and the flowers are sweet,
  And on to a silver star.

There's never a hill it does not climb
  To catch at the purple mist,
And never a vale where the twilights fail
  Where it has not held a tryst.

The road to my Dreams is a gypsy trail
  With a campfire under the sky,
And the patteran laid, in shadow and shade,
  Lest One should pass me by.

The road to my Dreams? 'Tis a city street
  Where, out in the surging throng,
I glimpse a face with a luring grace
  And the day i1s set to a song!

Oh, the paths of the whole wide world are yours,
  O'er mountains and valleys and streams,
But you may not dare to follow where
  I travel to reach my Dreams.

For at every bend of the Wander-Way
  I set up a trespass sign,
And I hold the road by the royal code
  That what I have staked is mine!