Dream Dust

Gather out of star-dust
            Earth-dust,
            Cloud-dust,
And splinters of hail,
One handful of dream-dust
            Not for sale.
 
Langston Hughes, "Dream Dust" from The Collected Works of Langston Hughes. Copyright © 2002 by Langston Hughes.  Reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates, Inc.
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