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.
To sleep
O soft embalmer of the still midnight,
Shutting, with careful
fingers and benign,
Our gloom-pleased eyes, embowered from the light,
Enshaded in forgetfulness
divine:
O soothest Sleep! if so it please thee, close,
In midst of this thine
hymn, my willing eyes,
Or wait the «Amen», ere thy hoppy throws
Around my bed its lulling
charities.
Then save me, or the
passed day will shine
Upon my pillow, breeding many woes, -
Save me from curious
conscience, that still lords
Its strength for darkness, bun-owing like a mole;
Turn the key deftly
in the oiled wards,
And. seal the hushed casket of my soul.
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