New poems / by Madison Cawein [electronic text]

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New poems / by Madison Cawein [electronic text]
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Cawein, Madison Julius,1865-1914.
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London: Grant Richards
1909
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"New poems / by Madison Cawein [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAH7936.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.

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OUR DREAMS

SPARE us our Dreams, O God! —The dream we dreamedWhen we were children and dwelt near the Land Of Faery, which our Childhood often planned To reach, beholding where its towers gleamed: The dream our Youth put seaward with; that streamed With Love's wild hair, or beckoned with the hand Of stout Adventure: Then that dream which spanned Our Manhood's skies with fame; that shone, it seemed,The one fixed star of purpose, fair and far, The dream of great achievement, in the heaven

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Of our desire, and gave the soul strong wings: Then that last dream, through which these others are Made true: The dream that holds us at Life's even, The mortal hope of far immortal things.
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