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George Willis Cooke, comp. The Poets of Transcendentalism: An Anthology. 1903.

Beauty and Duty

Ellen Sturgis Hooper (1812–1848)

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 shalt find thy dream to be

A noonday light and truth to thee.


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