Adrianne

Posted 17 Years Ago

Ebb and Flow

WALKED beside the evening sea,
And dreamed a dream that could not be;
The waves that plunged along the shore
Said only�"Dreamer, dream no more!"

But still the legions charged the beach;
Loud rang their battle-cry, like speech;
But changed was the imperial strain:
It murmured�"Dreamer, dream again!"

I homeward turned from out the gloom,�
That sound I heard not in my room;
But suddenly a sound that stirred
Within my very breast, I heard.

It was my heart, that like a sea
Within my breast beat ceaselessly:
But like the waves along the shore,
It said�"Dream on!" and "Dream no more!"

~ George William Curtis (1824-1892)