<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477695" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>If</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">IF life were but a dream, my Love,<br>And death the waking time;<br>If day had not a beam, my Love,<br>And night had not a rhyme, —<br>A barren, barren world were this<br>Without one saving gleam;<br>I'd only ask that with a kiss<br>You'd wake me from the dream.<br>If dreaming were the sum of days,<br>And loving were the bane;<br>If battling for a wreath of bays<br>Could soothe a heart in pain, —<br>I'd scorn the meed of battle's might,<br>All other aims above<br>I'd choose the human's higher right,<br>To suffer and to love!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Laurence+Dunbar">Paul Laurence Dunbar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477695" data-title="If de Paul Laurence Dunbar" data-description="IF life were but a dream, my Love, And death the waking time; If day had not a beam, my Love, And night had not a rhyme, — A barren, barren world were this Without one saving gleam; I'd only ask that with a kiss You'd wake me from the dream. If ..."></div> </div> </div>

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