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I Slept, And Dreamed That Life Was Beauty

by Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott

"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, sad heart, courageously,
And thou shall find thy dream to be
A noonday light and truth to thee."




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