Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PRAYER FOR A DREAM, by JOHN C. ADLER


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PRAYER FOR A DREAM, by                    
First Line: Hearty and hale and free
Last Line: That inherits my dream!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


Hearty and hale and free,
After my life is gone,
Mad with desire to be,
My dream rushes on.

Into some other heart,
Dominating its beat,
Making a man apart,
Controlling his heat.

What have I done for the dream?
Have I changed its force?
Have the winds of my self-esteem
Altered its course?

All that a man can do,
Bound to the common way,
Seeking the strange and the true
For a year and a day?

Given creative fire
And power to pursue,
I might have accomplished my soul's desire...
What did I do!

Rush on, rush on, my dream,
Into another one;
May he in some way redeem
The wrong I have done.

A greater beauty,
A larger zeal,
A common duty
That all may feel;

A unified art
And a master theme:
Create them, oh heart
That inherits my dream!





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