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A DREAM-POEM by ANTOINETTE DE COURSEY PATTERSON

First Line: LOST IN A DREAM ONE NIGHT
Last Line: LYRICAL WORD!
Subject(s): LANGUAGE; POETRY & POETS; WORDS; VOCABULARY;
Lost in a dream one night,
Verses I wrote,
Which on my sleeping ear
Pleasingly smote!

Like balls a juggler plays --
Shadow and gleam --
One by one shining words
Rose in my dream:

@3Choc-o-pic, Columbine,
Harlequinade,
Caramel, Brandywine,
Silver brocade@1.

@3Cinnamon, cellar-door,
Marionette,
Nicotine, Kohinoor,
Opals, aigrette;@1

@3Eskimo, tambourine,
Sable and vair,
Archangel, tricotine,
Vega, Voltaire;@1

Ending with this one, the
Sweetest yet heard,
@3Oleomargine@1 --
Lyrical word!



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