Life A Duty
I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty;
I woke, and found that life was Duty.
Was thy dream then a shadowy lie?
Toil on, poor heart, unceasingly;
And thou shalt find thy dream to be
A truth and noonday light to thee.
By Ellen Sturgis Hooper
Ellen Sturgis Hooper was born on 17 February 1812 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. She became a poet. Ellen Sturgis Hooper passed on at 36 years of age on 3 November 1848 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty;
I woke, and found that life was Duty.
Was thy dream then a shadowy lie?
Toil on, poor heart, unceasingly;
And thou shalt find thy dream to be
A truth and noonday light to thee.
By Ellen Sturgis Hooper
Ellen Sturgis Hooper was born on 17 February 1812 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. She became a poet. Ellen Sturgis Hooper passed on at 36 years of age on 3 November 1848 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.