Poems (Kennedy)/The Dream Road
THE DREAM ROAD
WHERE does it run, the road to my Dreams? Oh, ever and ever so far,Where the meadows meet and the flowers are sweet, And on to a silver star.
There's never a hill it does not climb To catch at the purple mist,And never a vale where the twilights fail Where it has not held a tryst.
The road to my Dreams is a gypsy trail With a campfire under the sky,And the patteran laid, in shadow and shade, Lest One should pass me by.
The road to my Dreams? 'Tis a city street Where, out in the surging throng,I glimpse a face with a luring grace And the day is set to a song!
Oh, the paths of the whole wide world are yours, O'er mountains and valleys and streams,But you may not dare to follow where I travel to reach my Dreams.
For at every bend of the Wander-Way I set up a trespass sign,And I hold the road by the royal code That what I have staked is mine!