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TO SLEEP. - ZaunköniG - 28.10.2007 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 poppy 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, in darkness burrowing like a mole ; Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards, And seal the hushed casket of my soul. |