Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, STEAL NOT THE DREAM!, by D. SANIAL GILL


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STEAL NOT THE DREAM!, by                    
First Line: It is easy to strain upward when we know
Last Line: The stricken wretch will but the sooner die!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


It is easy to strain upward when we know
Who benefit by our conduct count its cost, --
See, and feel, the incomings-to-us lost
Because for them we are striving thus and so;
It's easy when the eyes of watchers glow
Approvingly: whenever our way's not crossed
By hostile presences, nor the chilling frost
Of misconception to lay our courage low.
But take the battered pilgrim with his Cause
For which he is toiling bent beneath abuse,
His Cause that tomorrow will serve the common use
When the man himself will be beyond all laws, --
Steal from this "fool" the Dream that fires his eye --
The stricken wretch will but the sooner die!





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