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Do not tell me that life is a dream, because when I sleep things will not be like I think they are.
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This means that you know without being told in rymes, that life and soul shall die away and be nothing.
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Don’t tell me in sorrowful verses life is only an illusion, the soul is wicked that slumbers, and things are very deceitful.
The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight;
But they while their companions slept