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[Bright cap and streamers,]

by James Joyce, 1907

Bright cap and streamers,
  He sings in the hollow:
  Come follow, come follow,
    All you that love.
Leave dreams to the dreamers
  That will not after,
  That song and laughter
    Do nothing move.

With ribbons streaming
  He sings the bolder;
  In troop at his shoulder
    The wild bees hum.
And the time of dreaming
  Dreams is over -- -
  As lover to lover,
    Sweetheart, I come.

Published in Chamber Music
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