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Dream-Pedlary (excerpt)
by Thomas Lovell Beddoes

1 If there were dreams to sell,
2 What would you buy?
3 Some cost a passing bell;
4 Some a light sigh,
5 That shakes from Life's fresh crown
6 Only a rose-leaf down.
7 If there were dreams to sell,
8 Merry and sad to tell,
9 And the crier rang the bell,
10 What would you buy?

11 A cottage lone and still,
12 With bowers nigh,
13 Shadowy, my woes to still,
14 Until I die.
15 Such pearl from Life's fresh crown
16 Fain would I shake me down.
17 Were dreams to have at will,
18 This would best heal my ill,
19 This would I buy.