DREAM out your dream and thereby you shall live, Or part of you flow onward and not die; Accept men's gold and the soft looks they give, And fall among the mass that passes by: The stubborn mob that's neither you nor I. Accept your toil; watch haggard dawns awake, Or take the drugged reward inducing sleep .... The common fact is any fool's to take; The secret things are secret, buried deep, That you must go out hungrily to reap. Accept the simple joy that is your task, Or take the gold you may most simply earn .... But wages plus the joy you may not ask; That's law, choose now before the planets burn, For time and flame and ardours never return. |