Dreamland

 

What, if this life should prove to be a dream,--

A slumber journey to a fancied sphere:

Would the return to consciousness redeem

The loss, eternal, of the dreamland here?

 

What, if the scenes and friendships that seem real,

Were but the vision of a reverie:

Would the awakening again reveal
The picture of the dreamland mystery?

 

Or, would the thoughts reflected on review
Of the dream incidents, recalled again,

Forever pass away, as most dreams do,

And nought of dreamland’s memories remain?

What, if a choice were offered from above,

To live on earth, or dwell with the Supreme,--

Forgetting all the ties, endearments, love,

In this strange life, if it should prove a dream!

 

What, if the future life, too, were denied

Returning glimpses of the dreamland shore,--

What could the God of all above provide

In lieu of the lost dream, to dream no more?

 

  --Albert Anthony Augustus, Cleveland, 9-10-1925;

            born 1860's, died 1927.

 

 

Dreamland...with Art Bell?!!