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The Dream

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I have a dream     to fill the golden sheath     of a remembered day....     (Air     heavy and massed and blue     as the vapor of opium...     domes     fired in sulphurous mist...     sea     quiescent as a gray seal...     and the emerging sun     spurting up gold     over Sydney, smoke-pale, rising out of the bay....)     But the day is an up-turned cup     and its sun a junk of red iron     guttering in sluggish-green water -     where shall I pour my dream?

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