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ReadingWillow structured literacy program for Australian students

We dream -- it is good we are dreaming --

Emily Dickinson·1830–1886
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We dream -- it is good we are dreaming --It would hurt us -- were we awake --But since it is playing -- kill us,And we are playing -- shriek -- What harm? Men die -- externally --It is a truth -- of Blood --But we -- are dying in Drama --And Drama -- is never dead -- Cautious -- We jar each other --And either -- open the eyes --Lest the Phantasm -- prove the Mistake --And the livid Surprise Cool us to Shafts of Granite --With just an Age -- and Name --And perhaps a phrase in Egyptian --It's prudenter -- to dream --