Why Fades A Dream?

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Title:     Why Fades A Dream?
Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar [More Titles by Dunbar]

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.

[The end]
Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem: Why Fades A Dream?

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