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The Dreamer.

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Spirit of Song! whose whispers     Delight my pensive brain,     When will the perfect harmony     Ring through my feeble strain?     When will the rills of melody     Be widened to a stream!     When will the bright and gladsome Day     Succeed this morning dream?     "Mortal," the spirit whispered,     "If thou wouldst truly win     The race thou art pursuing,     Heed well the voice within:     And it shall gently teach thee     To read thy heart, and know     No human strain is perfect,     However sweet it flow.     And if thou readest truly,     As surely shalt thou find     That truths, like rills, though diverse,     Are choicest in their kind.     The souls of Poet-Dreamers     Touch heaven on their way;     With the light of Song to guide them     It should be always Day."

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