Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GOD'S DREAM, by WILLIAM NORRIS BURR


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GOD'S DREAM, by                    
First Line: The man's a dreamer!' good! That places him
Last Line: Might speed the progress of his gracious dream!
Subject(s): Dreams; God; Nightmares


"The man's a dreamer!" Good! That places him
In close relationship with God. For down
In the most wretched quarter of town
God stands and dreams His dream; amid the grim,
Ensanguined battle wreckage; in the dim,
Cold twilights where old superstitions frown;
And where the mutterings of race hatred drown
The sacred cadences of Love's fond hymn.

Today I met him on an uptown street
Calling for dreamers,—pleading in the heat
Of holy passion for more dream-swept hearts
To hold in all the world's discordant parts
The Torch of Brotherhood, that its Love-gleam
Might speed the progress of His gracious Dream!





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