Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE KING OF DREAMS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD


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First Line: Some must delve when the dawn is nigh
Last Line: Every man is a king of dreams!
Subject(s): Dreams; Self-gratification; Nightmares


SOME must delve when the dawn is nigh;
Some must toil when the noonday beams;
But when night comes, and the soft winds sigh,
Every man is a King of Dreams!

One must plod while another must ply
At plough or loom till the sunset streams,
But when night comes, and the moon rides high,
Every man is a King of Dreams!

One is slave to a master's cry,
Another serf to a despot seems,
But when night comes, and the discords die,
Every man is a King of Dreams!

This you may sell and that may buy,
And this you may barter for gold that gleams,
But there's one domain that is fixed for aye, --
Every man is a King of Dreams!





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