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    “All that we see or seem is but a dream  
         within a dream.”―Edgar Allan Poe
 
   
mine are not nighttime pillow dreams  
        that are, at daybreak, fled;  
                they come forth, bursting at the seams,  
                        when slumberfest is dead.  
   
                                my eyes are open widest, when  
                                        i gaze upon the face  
                                                of destinations far from men  
                                                        who falter in the race.  
   
                       for all my dreams are of the day,  
                               my visions of the light;  
                       my great ambitions for the quay,  
                           where men of courage fight  
   
for continence and peace and love  
        in war-torn hinterlands;  
                for human wisdom far above  
                        the tackle of vile hands.  
   
                                sleep not to dream, lest darkness kills  
                                        the sweet perfume of hope;  
                                                conquer the steep and lofty hills,  
                                                        ere paradise elope.  
   
                            © Copyright 2023 October 26  
                                    by Clyve A. Bowen♫
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