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/
