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The Golden Dream.

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In midnight dreams the Wizard came,      And beckoned me away     With tempting hopes of wealth and fame,      He cheered my lonely way.     He led me o'er a dusky heath,      And there a river swept,     Whose gay and glassy tide beneath,      Uncounted treasure, slept.     The wooing ripples lightly dashed      Around the cherished store,     And circling eddies brightly flashed      Above the yellow ore.     I bent me o'er the deep smooth stream,      And plunged the gold to get,     But oh! it vanished with my dream      And I got dripping wet!     O'er lonely heath and darksome hill,      As shivering home I went,     The mocking Wizard whispered shrill,      'Thou'dst better been content!'

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"In midnight dreams the Wizard came,..."

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