I just think that dreams are best, <br /> Just to sit and fancy things; <br /> Give your gold no acid test, <br />Try not how your silver rings; <br />Fancy women pure and good, <br /> Fancy men upright and true: <br /> Fortressed in your solitude, <br />Let Life be a dream to you. <br /> <br />For I think that Thought is all; <br /> Truth's a minion of the mind; <br /> Love's ideal comes at call; <br />As ye seek so shall ye find. <br />But ye must not seek too far; <br /> Things are never what they seem: <br /> Let a star be just a star, <br />And a woman -- just a dream. <br /> <br />O you Dreamers, proud and pure, <br /> You have gleaned the sweet of life! <br /> Golden truths that shall endure <br />Over pain and doubt and strife. <br /> I would rather be a fool <br /> Living in my Paradise, <br /> Than the leader of a school, <br /> Sadly sane and weary wise. <br /> <br /> O you Cynics with your sneers, <br /> Fallen brains and hearts of brass, <br /> Tweak me by my foolish ears, <br /> Write me down a simple ass! <br />I'll believe the real "you" <br /> Is the "you" without a taint; <br /> I'll believe each woman too, <br />But a slightly damaged saint. <br /> <br />Yes, I'll smoke my cigarette, <br /> Vestured in my garb of dreams, <br /> And I'll borrow no regret; <br />All is gold that golden gleams. <br />So I'll charm my solitude <br /> With the faith that Life is blest, <br /> Brave and noble, bright and good, . . . <br /> Oh, I think that dreams are best!<br /><br />Robert William Service<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dreams-are-best/
