Czecho-Slovak Student Life/Volume 18/Number 7/Dreams

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DREAMS

For the S. L. by Joseph J. Hlavacka.

The risen sun, in color brightShed on my face his gleaming light.I heard him say: “The night is o’er;Arise, my boy, and live no moreThis morn in happy dreams.”
“But, king of light, I’ve often seen,In my dreams, my lovely queen.”“I know that well,” was his reply,“So listen well to all that ISay of your life of dreams.
“What profit all your gain of fame,Your castles, and your honored name,Your slaying of the dreadful foe,Whose death doth free your queen from woeIn lands of happy dreams?
“The world for deeds in dreams cares naught,No lady’s love with them is bought;In life alone reward is wonBy things that you have really done.So dream not all your time away,But rise, seek honest work this dayTo win your queen of dreams.”

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