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—“Ah, but you do not know! Can dreams do this,

Pluck out blood-guiltiness upon the shore

Or memory⁠—and undo what’s done amiss,

And bid the thing that has been be no more?”

—“Sir, it is only dreams unlock that door,”

He answered with a shrug. “What would you have?

In dreams the thrice-proved coward can feel brave.