July 12: Idle Theme

O daydreams, become nightdreams when I sleep,

And let my slumbering mind elect stay

Wrapped up in luscious pleasure for to steep

Repose in bliss, and keep nightmares at bay.

For yearning daydreams much prefer to play

While masquerading as reality

Which makes them lack the breathtaking array

Of the subconscious mind in reverie.

So take my much beloved memory

And aspirations for the things to come,

Suffuse them with surprising novelty

To make a whole whose glory strikes me dumb.

In sleep desire, desire the...