SLEEP.
': When to soft sleep we give ourselves j And''in" "a dream, as in a fairy hark, 1 , i)if, on and on through the enchan-, ted dark i t To purple daybreak-little thought w-5 ' i pa v ' To that sweet bitter world we know I I ' by day. I , We are clean quit of it. as is a lark; So hiixh in heaven no human eye may I ma rk " j i The thin swift pinion cleaving through j J the gray. I ' I Till we awake ill fate can do no ill, \ I The resting heart shall not take up : j again i , 1 The heavy load that vet must make i i it bleed: ' j 1 For this brief space the loud world's, 1 voice is still, Xo faintest echo of it brings us pain. How will it be when we shall sleep indeed ? —Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 107, 4 May 1912, Page 13
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149SLEEP. Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 107, 4 May 1912, Page 13
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