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Midway upon the route, he paused athirst / And suddenly across the wastes of heat, / He saw cool waters gleaming, and a sweet / Green oasis upon his vision burst. / A tender dream, long in his bosom nursed, / Spread love's illusive verdure for his feet; / The barren sands changed into golden wheat; / The way grew glad that late had seemed accursed.
She shone, the woman wonder, on his soul; / The garden spot, for which men toil and wait; / The house of rest, that is each heart's demand; / But when, at last, he reached the gleaming goal, / He found, oh, cruel irony of fate, / But desert sun upon the desert sand.