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Z---------'s Dream Part 1 by Anne Bronte
I dreamt last night; and in that dream My boyhood's heart was mine again; These latter years did nothing seem With all their mingled joy and pain, Their thousand deeds of good and ill, Their hopes which time did not fulfil, Their glorious moments of success, Their love that closed in bitterness, Their hate that grew with growing strength, Their darling projects -- dropped at length, And higher aims that still prevail, -- For I must perish ere they fail, -- That crowning object of my life, The end of all my toil and strife, Source of my virtues and my crimes, For which I've toiled and striven in vain, -- But, if I fail a thousand times, Still I will toil and strive again: -- Yet even this was then forgot; My present heart and soul were not: All the rough lessons life has taught, That are become a part of me, A moment's sleep to nothing brought And made me what I used to be. And I was roaming, light and gay, Upon a breezy, sunny day, A bold and careless youth; No guilty stain was on my mind; And, if not over soft or kind, My heart was full of truth.
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