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Yeats, W B - Shadowy Waters - All would be well, could we but give us wholly to the dreams
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W B Yeats – Collected Poems
From In the Shadowy Waters
Forgael: All would be well
Could we but give us wholly to the dreams
And get into their world that to the sense
Is shadow, and not linger wretchedly
Amongst substantial things; for it is dreams
That lift us to the flowing, changing world
That the heart longs for. What is love itself
Even though it be the lightest of light love,
But dreams that hurry from beyond the world
To make low laughter more than meat and drink
Though it but set us sighing? Fellow wanderer
Could we but mix ourselves into a dream
Not in its image on the mirror