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Dreamers.

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Fools laugh at dreamers, and the dreamers smile     In answer, if they any answer make:     They know that Saxon Alfred could not bake     The oaten cakes, but that he snatched his Isle     Back from the fierce and bloody-handed Dane.     And so, they leave the plodders to their gains -     Quit money changing for the student's lamp,     And tune the harp to gain thereby some camp,     Where what they learn is worth a kingdom's crown;     They fashion bows and arrows to bring down     The mighty truths which sail the upper air;     To them the facts which make the fools despair     Become familiar, and a thousand things     Tell them the secrets they refuse to kings.

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