Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FOR IDLE DREAMERS, by BERTYE YOUNG WILLIAMS


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First Line: May god forgive the dreamers of the earth!
Last Line: Will serve as coin for their necessities.
Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, B. Y.


May God forgive the dreamers of the earth!
He made them -- and perhaps can understand
What bias gives the vision seeming worth
And what inertia stays the futile hand.
While others build great bridges and high towers
And launch heroic ships, and sow and reap,
Strange lethargy enwraps the dreamers' powers;
The gainless years yield but a little heap
Of crumpled fantasies for them. May God
Forgive and bring these aliens to a place
Where rainbows form the bridges to be trod
Across all yawning chasms; where a trace
Of silver moonlight falling through the trees
Will serve as coin for their necessities.





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