DREAMS.
Dreams are but interludes which Fancy makes: When monarch Reason sleeps, this mimic wakes: Compounds a medley of disjointed things, A mob of cobblers, and a court of kings: Light fumes are merry, grosser fumes are sad: Both are the reasonable soul run mad; And many monstrous forms in sleep That neither were, nor are, nor e’er can be. Sometimes forgotten things long cast , behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind. The nurse’s legends are for truths received. And the man dreams but what the boy- believed. Sometimes we but rehearse a former play. The night restores our actions done by day : As hounds in sleep will open for their prey; !n short, the farce of dreams is of a piece. Chimeras all; and more absurd, or less. —J. DRYDEX. (The Cock and the Fox.)
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17346, 10 May 1924, Page 24
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139DREAMS. Star (Christchurch), Issue 17346, 10 May 1924, Page 24
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