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FOOLS OF DREAM, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poet's Biography First Line: You will find them in lone hidings Last Line: To the deathless fools of dream! Subject(s): Dreams; Fools; Laughter; Time; Wind; Nightmares; Idiots | ||||||||
YOU will find them in lone hidings, You may know them by their face, For they seem to bring good tidings From some bright, unrumored place; Tidings like to be unnoted Of the world, yet very sure To bring joy, the golden-throated, When the better things endure. Fools, and worse than fools, we call them, And they smile nor make reply; The eternal quests enthrall them, Though we hound them till they die; Even midst the mob they wander With a dream-light in their eyes, And their look, it seems to ponder An evangel from the skies. Something childlike in their laughter Leaves a freshness like the spring; At their beck, those follow after Who delight in wayfaring Where the road leads ever higher And the wind blows back the hair, And the word of a Messiah Haunts and hovers in the air. Nay, the world can never daunt them, For their gladness is within; Though no human voice may vaunt them, Though their deeds be reckoned sin: In the fullness of the Ages They will come into their own, They will light Time's dimmest pages, Sitting splendid on a throne! Let us toast them, since they cherish The unbelievable, quick Gleam: To the fools who do not perish, To the deathless fools of Dream! | Other Poems of Interest...WHEN FOOLS DISPUTE by MAXWELL BODENHEIM THE VILLAGE IDIOT by EDWARD HIRSCH TWO SONGS OF A FOOL: 1 by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS TWO SONGS OF A FOOL: 2 by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS CRAZY JANE TALKS WITH THE BISHOP by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE FOOL'S ADVENTURE by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE THE CASE OF ALBERT IRVING WILLIAMSON by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS |
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