EPIGRAM
by Alexander Search
· s.d. (uncertain date)
Published 01/07/1880
«I love my dreams», I said, a winter morn,
To the practical man, and he, in scorn,
Replied: «I am no slave of the Ideal,
But, as all men of sense, I love the Real.»
Poor fool, mistaking all that is and seems!
I love the Real when I love my dreams.