lift and sway;
dream a life,
in a dream, away.
Like a dream
in a sleep
is the rose
in the wind;
and a fish
in the deep;
and a man
in the mind;
dreaming to lack
all that is his;
dreaming to gain
that entire he is.
dreaming a life,
in a dream, away
dip and swing,
lift and sway
THE ROSE
Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reed
Some say love it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed
Some say love it is a hunger and endless aching need
I say love it is a flower and you its only seed
It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance
It's the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance
It's the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give
And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live
When the night has been too lonely and the road has been too long
And you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong
Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows
Lies the seed that with the sun's love
In the spring becomes the rose
William Blake's "The Sick Rose."
O Rose, thou art sick!
The invisible worm
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy, And
his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.