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The Miller and His Golden Dream

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By Eliza Lucy Leonard
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A rural miller becomes consumed by the hope of finding buried treasure after hearing of a neighbor’s dream-led discovery. He abandons steady labor and domestic duties while awaiting a prophetic dream, neglecting his mill and impoverishing his household as neighbors withdraw their trust. The poem traces his growing avarice and altered temperament, showing the social consequences of his folly and concluding with a moral appeal for moderation, industry, and appreciation of modest, reliable blessings.

In the construction of the following little Poem, the Author has declined the aids of Genii, &c.—the powerful auxiliaries of her two former works,—on the belief that a moral truth requires little of artificial embellishment to render it attractive. She presents therefore a simple unadorned tale to her young readers, as an experiment; not without hope that their reception and approval of it may be such, as to sanction future efforts, and to confirm her in the propriety of her present opinion.