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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.

Written by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

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