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HOPES AND DREAMS.
Hopes and Dreams together leave me!
Leave me to Life's dark, deep Truth!
Of your dangerous joys bereave me,
It were well for me in sooth.
Leave me to Life's dark, deep Truth!
Of your dangerous joys bereave me,
It were well for me in sooth.
Oh! the racking, racking sorrow
Of the heart that wakes to know
Each bright promise of to-morrow,
Never can be kept below.
Of the heart that wakes to know
Each bright promise of to-morrow,
Never can be kept below.
Dreams—dreams—depart e'en now for ever—
Or take an ampler flight and scope!
Reach these Worlds whence Life doth sever,
Where your Goal should be, Bright Hope!
Or take an ampler flight and scope!
Reach these Worlds whence Life doth sever,
Where your Goal should be, Bright Hope!
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