I Try and Mean to Focus

I Try & Mean to Focus

but I cannot sustain the bold strategy

for the visions have come again in my sleep,

and I am afraid.

Sources:

[garden notes] by Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 1828.

I Try, & Mean to Gain One More Friend by John Crane of Bromsgrove, 1800.

I Cannot Sing the Old Songs by Claribel, 1876.