Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONNET: 5, by GEORGE SANTAYANA


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First Line: Dreamt I to-day the dream of yesternight
Last Line: Truth is a dream, unless my dream is true.
Subject(s): Dreams; Truth; Nightmares


Dreamt I today the dream of yesternight,
Sleep ever feigning one evolving theme, --
Of my two lives which should I call the dream?
Which action vanity? which vision sight?
Some greater waking must pronounce aright,
If aught abideth of the things that seem,
And with both currents swell the flooded stream
Into an ocean infinite of light.
Even such a dream I dream, and know full well
My waking passeth like a midnight spell,
But know not if my dreaming breaketh through
Into the deeps of heaven and of hell.
I know but this of all I would I knew:
Truth is a dream, unless my dream is true.





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