If I could buy a dream.

 

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DREAM-PEDLARY

If there were dreams to sell,

What would you buy?

Some cost a passing bell;

Some a light sigh,

That shakes from Life's fresh crown

Only a rose-leaf down.

If there were dreams to sell,

Merry and sad to tell,

And the crier rang the bell,

What would you buy?

A cottage lone and still,

Which bowers nigh,

Shadowy, my woes to still,

Until I die.

Such pearl from Life's fresh crown

Fain would I shake me down,

Were dreams to have at will,

This would best heal my ill,

This would I buy.

-Thomas Lovell Beddoes(1803-1849)

If someone comes to sell me a dream, what would I buy?

Some dreams may cost me even my life, others are as inexpensive as a sigh.

I would buy a lone cottage in the quite woods. Which will calm my worries with its stillness. I will gladly stay in that lonely cottage. I will have all my dreams there and heal my soul which is battered by the worldly worries.

That dream I will buy.

Kartikey