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.
Why Fades A Dream?
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Poem topics: light, night, star, trust, shade, Valentine's Day, life, thought, stream, dream, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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