Pray, what can dreams avail <br />To make love or to mar? <br />The child within the cradle rail <br />Lies dreaming of the star. <br />But is the star by this beguiled <br />To leave its place and seek the child? <br /> <br />The poor plucked rose within its glass <br />Still dreameth of the bee; <br />But, tho' the lagging moments pass, <br />Her Love she may not see. <br />If dream of child and flower fail, <br />Why should a maiden's dreams prevail?<br /><br />Paul Laurence Dunbar<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dream-song-ii/
