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A DREAM by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER

First Line: SOME PERFECT DAY I SHALL NOT NEED
Last Line: ONLY THAT I HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP.
Subject(s): DREAMS; SLEEP; NIGHTMARES;
SOME perfect day I shall not need
To bend my brows o'er baffling tasks;
Some perfect day my eyes will read
The meaning hid 'neath clouding masks;
Some perfect day my word and deed
Will fill the ideal my spirit asks.

Dear perfect day of days to be,
Which safe the steadfast heaven doth keep
Deep filled with love and rest for me,
Close pressed with sheaves I yet shall reap,
When they who watch beside me see
Only that I have fallen asleep.



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