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  • I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty;
    I woke, and found that life was Duty.
    Was thy dream then a shadowy lie?
    Toil on, poor heart, unceasingly;
    And thou shalt find thy dream to be
    A truth and noonday light to thee.

    "Life a Duty". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.