LIFE IS BUT A DREAM
by: Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
- BOAT, beneath
a sunny sky
- Lingering onward dreamily
- In an evening of July--
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- Children three that nestle near,
- Eager eye and willing ear,
- Pleased a simple tale to hear--
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- Long has paled that sunny sky;
- Echoes fade and memories die;
- Autumn frosts have slain July.
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- Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
- Alice moving under skies
- Never seen by waking eyes.
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- Children yet, the tale to hear,
- Eager eye and willing ear,
- Lovingly shall nestle near.
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- In a Wonderland they lie,
- Dreaming as the days go by,
- Dreaming as the summers die;
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- Ever drifting down the stream--
- Lingering in the golden gleam--
- Life, what is it but a dream?
"Life is but a Dream"
is reprinted from The Hunting of the Snark and Other Poems
and Verses. Lewis Carroll. New York: Harper & Brothers,
1903. |
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