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DREAMS.

What is a dream? Why fools and sages
Have wisely puzzled o'er the theme,
Till swept away by rolling ages,
Their being is become a dream!

Tho' vainly ponder'd, long and deep,
From early times these sapient fellows,
O'er the grave riddle fall'n asleep,
Not one, the wish'd result can tell us!

Onward the ignis-fatuus flits;
In vain they stretch'd the hand to hold it,