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."

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2. 'Y' Are The Maiden Posies
3. Mountain--Laurel
4. Not a Sparrow Falleth but Its God Doth Know
5. The Mother Moon

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