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Show DREAMS M By Hoff. H Like moonlight mesh'd in cloud, like lightning M tangled in storm, Like the rainbow timid-true to the sun 'gainst the shower's ban, H Like tho faith that flings its laughter in the M teeth of the crawling worm H Are the dreams, the eternal dreams, the dreams M in the heart of a man. H He is flesh'd and fetter'd in failure; he has bar- VM ter'd God's grace B For red bubbles that burst at a thought; he has ! look'd on the face H Of the years and he Baw there Darkness and his HB life as a leaf M .Wither'd, dust-wedded, and Pity hath outrld his M Grief; 'H He hath sobbed on the shoulder of Self in the H silence and cried H As Christ on the hilltop but the dreams of him fH never have died. 1 They bloom when the tide of iSilence creeps in M from the outer deep M And Life is a flicker of wraith-like mist that M moves thro' an ancient sleep; M They steal from the fringe of Twilight as fays M from the tranced wold, M To fret the arches of Dusk with light and the H vault of the years with gold. M They leap on the back of tho wind from the lily M heart of the dawn, M They are flung up from moonlight more wild than M elfin spawn, M They dance with the hymnal thunder on the H star-rlng'd peaks of "ir M Or tho song of a bird n , pipe them up and lure H them from their lair! H New York Sun. H |