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    Dreams and Dust
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    Dreams and Dust

    By Don Marquis

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    "Dreams and Dust" by Don Marquis. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 3, 2019
    ISBN4057664575999
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      Dreams and Dust - Don Marquis

      Don Marquis

      Dreams and Dust

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4057664575999

      Table of Contents

      SHADOWS

      PROEM

      DAYLIGHT HUMORS

      THIS IS ANOTHER DAY

      SHADOWS

      HAUNTED

      SEA CHANGES

      COLORS AND SURFACES

      A GOLDEN LAD

      DREAMS AND DUST

      SELVES

      THE GOD-MAKER, MAN

      LYRICS

      REALITIES

      REALITIES

      PROEM

      DAYLIGHT HUMORS

      THIS IS ANOTHER DAY APRIL SONG THE EARTH, IT IS ALSO A STAR THE NAME THE BIRTH A MOOD OF PAVLOWA THE POOL THEY HAD NO POET NEW YORK A HYMN THE SINGER WORDS ARE NOT GUNS WITH THE SUBMARINES NICHOLAS OF MONTENEGRO DICKENS A POLITICIAN THE BAYONET THE BUTCHERS AT PRAYER

      SHADOWS

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      HAUNTED A NIGHTMARE THE MOTHER IN THE BAYOU THE SAILOR'S WIFE SPEAKS HUNTED A DREAM CHILD ACROSS THE NIGHT SEA CHANGES THE TAVERN OF DESPAIR

      COLORS AND SURFACES

      A GOLDEN LAD THE SAGE AND THE WOMAN NEWS FROM BABYLON A RHYME OF THE ROADS THE LAND OF YESTERDAY OCTOBER CHANT OF THE CHANGING HOURS

      DREAMS AND DUST

      SELVES THE WAGES IN MARS, WHAT AVATAR? THE GOD-MAKER, MAN UNREST THE PILTDOWN SKULL THE SEEKER THE AWAKENING A SONG OF MEN THE NOBLER LESSON AT LAST

      LYRICS

      KING PANDION, HE IS DEAD DAVID TO BATHSHEBA THE JESTERS MARY, MARY, QUITE CONTRARY THE TRIOLET FROM THE BRIDGE PALADINS, PALADINS, YOUTH NOBLE-HEARTED MY LANDS, NOT THINE TO A DANCING DOLL LOWER NEW YORK—A STORM AT SUNSET A CHRISTMAS GIFT SILVIA THE EXPLORERS EARLY AUTUMN TIME STEALS FROM LOVE THE RONDEAU VISITORS THE PARTING AN OPEN FIRE

      REALITIES

      REALITIES THE STRUGGLE THE REBEL THE CHILD AND THE MILL SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI THE COMRADE ENVOI

      PROEM

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      SO LET THEM PASS, THESE SONGS OF MINE

      So let them pass, these songs of mine,

      Into oblivion, nor repine;

      Abandoned ruins of large schemes,

      Dimmed lights adrift from nobler dreams,

      Weak wings I sped on quests divine,

      So let them pass, these songs of mine.

      They soar, or sink ephemeral—

      I care not greatly which befall!

      For if no song I e'er had wrought,

      Still have I loved and laughed and fought;

      So let them pass, these songs of mine;

      I sting too hot with life to whine!

      Still shall I struggle, fail, aspire,

      Lose God, and find Gods in the mire,

      And drink dream-deep life's heady wine—

      So let them pass, these songs of mine.

      DAYLIGHT HUMORS

      THIS IS ANOTHER DAY

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      I AM mine own priest, and I shrive myself

      Of all my wasted yesterdays. Though sin

      And sloth and foolishness, and all ill weeds

      Of error, evil, and neglect grow rank

      And ugly there, I dare forgive myself

      That error, sin, and sloth and foolishness.

      God knows that yesterday I played the fool;

      God knows that yesterday I played the knave;

      But shall I therefore cloud this new dawn o'er

      With fog of futile sighs and vain regrets?

      This is another day! And flushed Hope walks

      Adown the sunward slopes with golden shoon.

      This is another day; and its young strength

      Is laid upon the quivering hills until,

      Like Egypt's Memnon, they grow quick with song.

      This is another day, and the bold world

      Leaps up and grasps its light, and laughs, as leapt

      Prometheus up and wrenched the fire from Zeus.

      This is another day—are its eyes blurred

      With maudlin grief for any wasted past?

      A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt!

      Let dust clasp dust; death, death—I am alive!

      And out of all the dust and death of mine

      Old selves I dare to lift a singing heart

      And living faith; my spirit dares drink deep

      Of the red mirth mantling in the cup of morn.

      APRIL SONG

      FLEET across the grasses

      Flash the feet of Spring,

      Piping, as he passes

      Fleet across the grasses,

      "Follow, lads and lasses!

      Sing, world, sing!"

      Fleet across the grasses

      Flash the feet of Spring!

      Idle winds deliver

      Rumors through the town,

      Tales of reeds that quiver,

      Idle winds deliver,

      Where the rapid river

      Drags the willows down—

      Idle winds deliver

      Rumors through the town.

      In the country places

      By the silver brooks

      April airs her graces;

      In the country places

      Wayward April paces,

      Laughter in her looks;

      In the country places

      By the silver brooks.

      Hints of alien glamor

      Even reach the town;

      Urban muses stammer

      Hints of alien glamor,

      But the city's clamor

      Beats the voices down;

      Hints of alien glamor

      Even reach the town.

      THIS EARTH, IT IS ALSO A STAR

      WHERE the singers of Saturn find tongue,

      Where the Galaxy's lovers embrace,

      Our world and its beauty are sung!

      They lean from their casements to trace

      If our planet still spins in its place;

      Faith fables the thing that we are,

      And Fantasy laughs and gives chase:

      This earth, it is also a star!

      Round the sun, that is fixed, and hung

      For a lamp in the darkness of space

      We are whirled, we are swirled, we are flung;

      Singing and shining we race

      And our light on the uplifted face

      Of dreamer or prophet afar

      May fall as a symbol of grace:

      This earth, it is also a star!

      Looking out where our planet

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