I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty;

I woke, and found that life was Duty.

Was thy dream then a shadowy lie?

Toil on, poor heart, unceasingly;

And thou shalt find thy dream to be

A truth and noonday light to thee.

Ellen Sturgis Hooper (1816-1841): Life a Duty.

This is the place. Stand still, my steed,—

Let me review the scene,

And summon from the shadowy past

The forms that once have been.

Henry W Longfellow (1807-1882): A Gleam of Sunshine.