<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="" class="head">Dreams</h1><h1 align="" class="head">To M. S.</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">O DREAMS are sweet, and dreams are swift,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Divinely bright, divinely dim,</p><p class="line">And dreams are free to dance and drift</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Beyond life's round horizon-rim.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">O dreams are swift, and dreams are sweet,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And dreams are dim, and dreams are bright,</p><p class="line">Yet braver are the human feet</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">That labour up the mountain height.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">And braver is the human heart</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">That dares to live its life alone,</p><p class="line">That in a desert dwells apart,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And makes the loneliness a throne.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">And bravest is the heart that strives</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">To kindle other hearts with song,</p><p class="line">And make our mean discordant lives</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Melodious, and free, and strong.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">That makes truth fairer than our dreams,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">That makes our fairest dreams come true;</p><p class="line">Bravest is such a heart, meseems,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Lady, as beats in you.</p></div></body></html> · Great War