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Edward Fitzgerald - The Dream Called Life

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From the Spanish of Pedro Calderon de la Barca <br /> <br /> <br />A dream it was in which I found myself. <br />And you that hail me now, then hailed me king, <br />In a brave palace that was all my own, <br />Within, and all without it, mine; until, <br />Drunk with excess of majesty and pride, <br />Methought I towered so big and swelled so wide <br />That of myself I burst the glittering bubble <br />Which my ambition had about me blown, <br />And all again was darkness. Such a dream <br />As this, in which I may be walking now, <br />Dispensing solemn justice to you shadows, <br />Who make believe to listen; but anon <br />Kings, princes, captains, warriors, plume and steel, <br />Aye, even with all your airy theatre, <br />May flit into the air you seem to rend <br />With acclamations, leaving me to wake <br />In the dark tower; or dreaming that I wake <br />From this that waking is; or this and that, <br />Both waking and both dreaming; such a doubt <br />Confounds and clouds our moral life about. <br />But whether wake or dreaming, this I know, <br />How dreamwise human glories come and go; <br />Whose momentary tenure not to break, <br />Walking as one who knows he soon may wake, <br />So fairly carry the full cup, so well <br />Disordered insolence and passion quell, <br />That there be nothing after to upbraid <br />Dreamer or doer in the part he played; <br />Whether tomorrow's dawn shall break the spell, <br />Or the last trumpet of the Eternal Day, <br />When dreaming, with the night, shall pass away.<br /><br />Edward Fitzgerald<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-dream-called-life/

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