The Mind

Dreams

by Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. 1895–1919

From The Band of Gideon, and Other Lyrics (1918)

The Mind

There is naught in the pathless reach
Of the pale, blue sky above,
There is naught that the stars tell, each to each,
As over the heavens they rove;
That I have not felt or have not seen
Clad in dull earth or fancy's sheen.

There is naught, in the still, mauve twilight
When the dreams come flitting by,
From lands afar of eternal night,
Or lands of the sunswept sky.
For countless spirits within me dwell
With heaven's effulgence or dark hell.

MLA

Jr., Joseph Seamon Cotter. “Dreams.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cotter_jr/6/.

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