WHY fades a dream? <br />An iridescent ray <br />Flecked in between the tryst <br />Of night and day. <br />Why fades a dream? — <br />Of consciousness the shade <br />Wrought out by lack of light and made <br />Upon life's stream. <br />Why fades a dream? <br />That thought may thrive, <br />So fades the fleshless dream; <br />Lest men should learn to trust <br />The things that seem. <br />So fades a dream, <br />That living thought may grow <br />And like a waxing star-beam glow <br />Upon life's stream — <br />So fades a dream.<br /><br />Paul Laurence Dunbar<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/why-fades-a-dream/
