Pen. Two gates there are in heaven of shadowy dreams,

One pair of ivory wrought, and one of horn:

And dreams that through the ivory come to men

Are cheating, and show things that shall not be;

But such as through the polished horn fly down

Are true in issue to their glad beholders:

But thence came not my strange dream as I fear,

Welcome as ’twere to me and to my son.

Ul. The dream was true; the interpretation true.

If yet thou doubt, me too a goddess sent