Dreamers

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <p class="poemtitle"><SPAN name="THE_DREAMERS" id="THE_DREAMERS"></SPAN>THE DREAMERS</p> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">The gypsies passed her little gate&mdash;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">She stopped her wheel to see,&mdash;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">A brown-faced pair who walked the road,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Free as the wind is free;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">And suddenly her tidy room</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">A prison seemed to be.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Her shining plates against the walls,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Her sunlit, sanded floor,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">The brass-bound wedding chest that held</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Her linen's snowy store,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">The very wheel whose humming died,&mdash;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Seemed only chains she bore.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">She watched the foot-free gypsies pass;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">She never knew or guessed</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">The wistful dream that drew them close&mdash;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">The longing in each breast</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Some day to know a home like hers,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Wherein their hearts might rest.</span><br/> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />