A Sleepless Night
Alfred Austin
1835 to 1913
Track 1
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And from its boundless prison-house I caught
Planet with punctual planet chiming clear,
I lay awake and listened. I could hear
A melancholy undertone was wrought;
Nor these alone: cloistered from deafening sight,
All things that are, made music to my ear:
And life through time's stops blowing variously,
And unto star star cadencing aright.
Within the hollow silence of the night
With Arctic mains in rigid sleep locked tight.
Hushed woods, dumb caves, and many a soundless mere,
The awful wail of lone Eternity.
But ever with this chant from shore and sea,
From singing constellation, humming thought,
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