I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty

by practicalspactical

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, poor heart, unceasingly,
And thou shalt find thy dream to be
A truth and noonday light to thee.

— Ellen Sturgis Hooper, 1816-1841