THE AWAKENING

At night, in dream,

I saw those fields round home

Agleam.

Drenched all with dew

Beneath day’s newest dome

Of gold and blue.

All night—

All night they shone for me, and then

Came light.

And suddenly I woke, and lovely joy!

I was at home, with the fields gold as when

I was a boy.


Thus shall all men rise up at last to see,

Their dearest dreams golden reality.