The Dreamer
1879-1931
"~Why do you seek the sun,
In your Bubble-Crown ascending?
Your chariot will melt to mist,
Your crown will have an ending.~"
"Nay, sun is but a Bubble,
Earth is a whiff of Foam --
To my caves on the coast of Thule
Each night I call them home.
Thence Faiths blow forth to angels
And Loves blow forth to men --
They break and turn to nothing
And I make them whole again:
On the crested waves of chaos
I ride them back reborn:
New stars I bring at evening
For those that burst at morn:
My soul is the wind of Thule
And evening is the sign,
The sun is but a Bubble,
A fragile child of mine."
DayPoems Poem No. 1196
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/1196.html">The Dreamer by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
Timothy Bovee, editor
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