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WHO HAS NOT HID A DREAM, by                    
First Line: Who has not hid a dream within his heart
Last Line: For buying laughter with the price of truth?
Subject(s): Truth


Who has not hid a dream within his heart,
Intending to return a later day,
To find it still alive, still set apart,
Grown lovelier than when he went away;
Then, leaving it, gone out to win his bread
Among bright things the mob was running after—
Well satisfied, providing he were fed
And all his days were gay with love and laughter?

Who has not, later, probed his mind, alone,
To find the dream was dead these many years;
The world had given him for bread ... a stone;—
His loss immutable by grief or tears.
Who has not cursed his flippant, careless youth
For buying laughter with the price of Truth?





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