SLEEP
by: Walter de la Mare (b.
1873)
- EN all, and birds, and creeping
beasts,
When the dark of night is deep,
From the moving wonder of their lives
Commit themselves to sleep.
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- Without a thought, or fear, they shut
The narrow gates of sense;
Heedless and quiet, in slumber turn
Their strength to impotence.
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- The transient strangeness of the earth
Their spirits no more see:
Within a silent gloom withdrawn,
They slumber in secrecy.
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- Two worlds they have--a globe forgot,
Wheeling from dark to light;
And all the enchanted realm of dream
That burgeons out of night.
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