Dreams!
- Shirley
- Mar 20
- 1 min read
1901 –
1967
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird.

That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
for when dreams go
Life is a barren field.
Frozen with snow.
From The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes published by Alfred A. Knopf/Vintage. Copyright © 1994 by the Estate of Langston Hughes. Reprinted with permission from Harold Ober Associates Incorporated. All rights reserved.
"You could not be right, and He wrongs any more
that a stream can rise higher than its source." C.S. Lewis
Dr. Laurence Wedderburn March 2025
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