Hold Fast your dreams!

Within your heart

Keep one, still secret spot

Where dreams may go,

And sheltered grow--

Where doubt and fear are not.

O, 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 in 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 be

Even now at home in immortality.



We see so many ugly things--

Deceits and wrongs and quarrellings;

We know, alas! 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.

Yet keep within your heart

A place apart

Where little dreams may go,

May thrive and grow.

Hold fast--hold fast your dreams.