As poetry goes, I much prefer the original ;-)

Would I love a dream like this to come true!

In fact I liked it so much that I ran it as a perl script (without use strict, though).

Quoth perl:

Bareword found where operator expected at H:\devperl\perlmonks\Noname1
+.pl line 5, near "? And what if, in your sleep you dreamed? And" 
    (Missing operator before And?) 
Unquoted string "dream" may clash with future reserved word at H:\devp
+erl\perlmonks\Noname1.pl line 5.?)
Unquoted string "flower" may clash with future reserved word at H:\dev
+perl\perlmonks\Noname1.pl line 5.?)
syntax error at H:\devperl\perlmonks\Noname1.pl line 5, near "? And wh
+at if, in your sleep you dreamed? And what "
Execution of H:\devperl\perlmonks\Noname1.pl aborted due to compilatio
+n errors.
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Not too bad, only 4 compilation errors.
And think of future perl reserved words "flower" and "dream"!

Rudif