Canadian Singers and Their Songs/Thomas O'Hagan

by Thomas O'Hagan

For works with similar titles, see The Dreamer.

THOMAS O'HAGAN, PH.D., LL.D.

AUTHOR OF "IN DREAMLAND," "SONGS OF THE SETTLEMENT," "IN THE
HEART OF THE MEADOW," "SONGS OF HEROIC DAYS," ETC.

The Dreamer.

Men call me dreamer—what care I?
The cradle of my heart is rocked;
I dwell in realms beyond the earth.
The gold I mint is never locked!

Men call me dreamer—this forsooth
Because I spurn each thing of dross,
And count the step that leads not up
A useless toil a round of loss.

Men call me dreamer—nay, that word
Hath burned its way from age to age;
Its light shone o’er Judea’s hills
And thrilled the heart of seer and sage

Men call me dreamer—yet forget
The dreamer lives a thousand years,
While those whose hearts and hands knead clay
Love not beyond their dusty biers.

⁠Thomas Hagan