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