| Padraic Colum (1881–1972). Anthology of Irish Verse. 1922. |
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| 178. He Whom a Dream Hath Possessed |
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| By Shaemas O'Sheel |
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| HE WHOM a dream hath possessed knoweth no more of doubting, | |
| For mist and the blowing of winds and the mouthing of words he scorns; | |
| Not the sinuous speech of schools he hears, but a knightly shouting, | |
| And never comes darkness down, yet he greeteth a million morns. | |
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| He whom a dream hath possessed knoweth no more of roaming; | 5 |
| All roads and the flowing of waves and the speediest flight he knows, | |
| But wherever his feet are set, his soul is forever homing, | |
| And going he comes, and coming he heareth a call and goes. | |
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| He whom a dream hath possessed knoweth no more of sorrow, | |
| At death and the dropping of leaves and the fading of suns he smiles, | 10 |
| For a dream remembers no past and scorns the desire of a morrow, | |
| And a dream in a sea of doom sets surely the ultimate isles. | |
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| He whom a dream hath possessed treads the impalpable marches, | |
| From the dust of the day’s long road he leaps to a laughing star, | |
| And the ruin of worlds that fall he views from eternal arches, | 15 |
| And rides God’s battlefield in a flashing and golden car. | |
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