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In the dawn of the day when the sea and the earth / Reflected the sunrise above, / I set forth with a heart full of courage and mirth / To seek for the Kingdom of Love. / I asked of a Poet I met on the way / Which cross-road would lead me aright; / And he said "Follow me, and ere long you shall see / Its glittering turrets of light."
And soon in the distance a city shone fair. / "Look yonder," he said; "How it gleams! " / But alas! for the hopes that were doomed to despair, / It was only the "Kingdom of Dreams. " / Then the next man I asked was a gay Cavalier, / And he said: "Follow me, follow me"; / And with laughter and song we went speeding along / By the shores of Life's beautiful sea.