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The Broadway Anthology by Murdock Pemberton Walter J. Kingsley Samuel Hoffenstein Edward L. Bernays
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THE THEATRE SCRUBWOMAN
DREAMS A DREAM

When morning mingles with the gloom
On empty stage and twilit aisle,
She comes with rag and pan and broom
To work--and dream awhile.

Illusion's laughter, fancy's tears,
The mimic loves of yesternight,
On empty stages of the years
Awake in the dim light.

She cannot sweep the phantoms out--
How sweet the sobbing violin!--
She cannot put the ghosts to rout--
How pale the heroine!

Oh! valiant hero, sorely tried!--
'Tis only dust that fills her eyes--
But he shall have his lovely bride
And she her paradise!

And she--the broom falls from her hands,
And is it dust that fills her eyes?--
Shall go with him to golden lands
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