Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LAND O' DREAMS, by WALT MASON


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First Line: It's over the mountains, a million miles, it's
Last Line: Dreams come true.
Subject(s): Dreams; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips


IT'S over the mountains, a million miles, it's over the misty sea, it's off at
the end of the forest aisles—it's ne'er where we chance to be. Our homes
are gay with the rose and thyme, and the grass is bright with dew, but we always

think of a far-off clime, as the land where the dreams come true. The young man

frets in his native ditch, and pines for a place afar; if he stays at home he
can never hitch his cart to a rising star. He hears the travelers warmly speak
of wonderful things they knew, and he wanders off in the dawn to seek the land
where the dreams come true. After many years, when he's bent and old, he totters

on feeble limbs, to lay him down in the old home fold, and die to the sound of
hymns. His head was gray ere he learned the truth, the truth that is old and
new, that home's the fulfilment of dreams of youth—the place where our
dreams come true.





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