“I had a dream, which was not all a dream.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Darkness http://readytogoebooks.com/Lb-Drk85.htm, line 1 (1816).
“Dreaming a dream to prize,
Is wishing ghosts to rise;
And, if I had the spell
To call the buried — well,
Which one would I?”
Epigraph to "Book Four : Which Travels, roundabout, to edifying and safe conclusions"
The Cream of the Jest (1917)
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Is wishing ghosts to rise;
And, if I had the spell
To call the buried — well,
Which one …" by James Branch Cabell?
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