At The Year's End
by John Banister Tabb
Night dreams of day, and winter seems
In sleep to breathe the balm of May.
Their dreams are true anon; but they,
The dreamers, then, alas, are dreams.
Thus, while our days the dreams renew
Of some forgotten sleeper, we,
The dreamers of futurity,
Shall vanish when our own are true.
Source:
PoemsCopyright 1894
John Lane, LondonCopeland and Day, Boston