The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar · Paul Laurence Dunbar

Dream Song Ii

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Pray, what can dreams avail

To make love or to mar?

The child within the cradle rail

Lies dreaming of the star.

But is the star by this beguiled

To leave its place and seek the child?

The poor plucked rose within its glass

Still dreameth of the bee;

But, tho' the lagging moments pass,

Her Love she may not see.

If dream of child and flower fail,

Why should a maiden's dreams prevail?

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