*Hold Fast Your Dreams*

Hold fast your dreams!
Within your heart
Keep one still, secret spot
Where dreams may go.
And, sheltered so,
May thrive and grow.
Where doubt and fear are not.
Oh, keep a place apart
Within your heart.
For little dreams to go.

Think still of lovely things that are not true
Let wish and magic work at will within you.
Be sometimes blind to sorrow. Make believe!

Forget the calm that lies in disillusioned eyes.
Though we all know that we must die,
Yet you and I may walk like gods and even now at home in immortality.

We see so many ugly things
Deceits and wrongs and quarrelings!
We know, yes we know how quickly fade the color in the west, the bloom upon the
flower, the bloom upon the breast, and youth's blind hour.
A place apart where little dreams may go, may thrive and grow.
Hold fast - hold fast your dreams!