Bright Cap and Streamers

Bright Cap and Streamers

Poem by James Joyce

Bright cap and streamers,
He sings in the hollow:
Come follow, come follow,
          All you that love.
Leave dreams to the dreamers
That will not after,
That song and laughter
          Do nothing move.

With ribbons streaming
He sings the bolder;
In troop at his shoulder
          The wild bees hum.
And the time of dreaming
Dreams is over — -
As lover to lover,
          Sweetheart, I come.