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CANADIAN SINGERS AND THEIR SONGS

Keep thou thy dreams though faith should
 * faint and fail,

And time should loose thy fingers from the
 * creeds;

The vision of The Christ will still avail
 * To lead thee on to truth and tender deeds.

— — Keep thou thy dreams through all the winter's
 * cold;

Where weeds are withered and the garden grey— Dream thou of roses, with their hearts of gold,—
 * Beckon to summers that are on their way.

— — Keep thou thy dreams,—the tissue of
 * all wings

Is woven first of them; from dreams
 * are made

The precious and imperishable things Whose loveliness lives on—and does not fade. — —

Virna 133