A lost but happy dream may ... by Walter de La Mare, an English Poet

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“A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.”

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Walter de La Mare

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Name: Walter de La Mare

Nationality: English

Date of Birth: 1873

Date of Death: 1956

Profession: Poet

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A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.

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Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.

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All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.

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