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FOLLOWING A DREAM.

I should not follow a dream in vain,
Loving, forsaking, loving again,
If this one loved a little more,
If that one sorrowed a little longer;
If red lips holier kisses bore,
If passionate hearts were stronger.
I should not leave brown hair for gold,
The warm and fair for the fair and cold,
If one I loved ne'er loved again;
As years go by and loves grow fewer,
I should not follow a dream in vain,
If a beautiful woman were truer.