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THIS is my House of Dreams—a house of shade,Built with the fleeting visions of the night:
Here have I set my youth and all its white
Sad mem'ries—in this dwelling that I made
With idle rhyme, as lonely fancy bade.
If any wonder at the strange sad might
The God of Visions holds upon my sight
And set himself my weak song to upbraid
For all the wailing notes therein that teem,
I pray him of his favour that to lands
Of sunnier clime he wend; for things that seem
Are here the things of life and give commands
To living; for a dream is on my hands
And on my life the shadow of a dream.
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