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THE TWO DREAMS by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH

First Line: I MET ONE IN THE LAND OF SLEEP
Last Line: SO BOTH WERE ONLY DREAMS.
Subject(s): DREAMS; FRIENDSHIP; LIFE; LOVE; SLEEP; NIGHTMARES;

I MET one in the Land of Sleep
Who seemed a friend long known and true.
I woke. That friend I could not keep --
For him I never knew.
Yet there was one in life's young morn
Loved me, I thought, as I loved him.
Slow from that trance I waked forlorn,
To find his love grown dim.
He by whose side in dreams I ranged,
Unknown by name, my friend still seems;
While he I knew so well has changed.
So both were only dreams.



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