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ETERNAL DREAM, by                    
First Line: Intelligence in man conceived
Last Line: In sleep for all eternity.
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


Intelligence in man conceived
With its first dawn a mighty dream,
In every age and land believed
And still today our guiding beam,
A cherished hope within each breast
To have that ego which we are,
Along with joys we mark as blest,
And to reject the wound or scar.

Intelligence, that is the link
Of human and divinity;
The power to love, to feel, and think
Is truly that identity;
Since man discovered thus the way
And held the vision as his light,
The Great Omnipotence will say
That realization is his right.

Should reason hold no place nor kin
To heavenly plan or master scheme,
If life, with churlish prank and grin,
May taunt us with deceiving dream,
Rejoice in that we ne'er can know
Its galling pang of cruelty;
Oblivion sweet will shield that blow
In sleep for all eternity.





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