Poem by Louisa May Alcott

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

1. Thoreau's Flute
2. Mountain--Laurel
3. Little Nell
4. A Song from the Suds
5. My Frost-King - Song I

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