The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Why Fades a Dream?
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WHY FADES A DREAM?
Why fades a dream?
An iridescent ray
Flecked in between the tryst
Of night and day.
Why fades a dream?—
Of consciousness the shade
Wrought out by lack of light and made
Upon life's stream.
Why fades a dream?
That thought may thrive,
So fades the fleshless dream;
Lest men should learn to trust
The things that seem.
So fades a dream,
That living thought may grow
And like a waxing star-beam glow
Upon life's stream—
So fades a dream.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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