Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DREAMS, by WALT MASON


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First Line: I hope some day to write a song that will
Last Line: Coal, you struggle on accordin'.
Subject(s): Ambition; Dreams; Wishes; Nightmares


I HOPE some day to write a song that will astonish all the throng on this old
planet groping; but meanwhile, since I have to buy the children lids and shoes
and pie, I'll take it out in hoping. I often think if I had time to put my best

into a rhyme, John Milton would look faded; but writing doggerel that pays takes

up the passing hours and days, and keeps me worn and jaded. I don't suppose I'll

ever pen the ode that will astonish men, and bring me Shakespeare's laurels; and

as of old my ink shall flow, expounding lessons all men know, and bargain
counter morals. But when all day I've lyred and lyred, until I'm frazzled out
and tired, it's pleasant to sit dreaming of that far day when I shall write an
ode so full of force and light, the critics will be screaming. And thus your
dream is soothing you, though you may know it won't come true, this side the
river Jordan; it's good to have some kind of goal; and so, for duds and grub and

coal, you struggle on accordin'.





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