If there were dreams to sell, <br /> What would you buy? <br /> Some cost a passing bell; <br /> Some a light sigh, <br /> That shakes from Life's fresh crown <br /> Only a rose-leaf down. <br /> If there were dreams to sell, <br /> Merry and sad to tell, <br /> And the crier rang the bell, <br /> What would you buy? <br /> <br /> A cottage lone and still, <br /> With bowers nigh, <br /> Shadowy, my woes to still, <br /> Until I die. <br /> Such pearl from Life's fresh crown <br /> Fain would I shake me down. <br /> Were dreams to have at will, <br /> This would best heal my ill, <br /> This would I buy.<br /><br />Thomas Lovell Beddoes<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dream-pedlary-excerpt/
