title: Songs of Dreaming Gods
author:  William Meikle 
description: Songs of Dreaming Gods is certainly a bridge worth crossing. The world that waits on the other side is interesting, imaginative, and, above all, entertaining. - Ginger Nuts of Horror
zlib_text: DREAMS & DUST
  1
  DREAMS & DUST
  POEMS BY DON MARQUIS
  TO MY MOTHER VIRGINIA WHITMORE MARQUIS
    
  
  DREAMS & DUST
  2
  PROEM
  "SO LET THEM PASS, THESE SONGS OF
  MINE"
  So let them pass, these songs of mine, Into oblivion, nor repine;
  Abandoned ruins of large schemes, Dimmed lights adrift from nobler
  dreams,
  Weak wings I sped on quests divine, So let them pass, these songs of
  mine. They soar, or sink ephemeral-- I care not greatly which befall!
  For if no song I e'er had wrought, Still have I loved and laughed and
  fought; So let them pass, these songs of mine; I sting too hot with life to
  whine!
  Still shall I struggle, fail, aspire, Lose God, and find Gods in the mire,
  And drink dream-deep life's heady wine-- So let them pass, these songs of
  mine.
  DAYLIGHT HUMORS
  THIS IS ANOTHER DAY
  I AM mine own priest, and I shrive myself Of all my wasted
  yesterdays.  Though sin And sloth and foolishness, and all ill weeds Of
  error, evil, and neglect grow rank And ugly there, I dare forgive myself
  That error, sin,