Sleep
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1807 to 1882
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I breathe again uninterrupted breath!
Call thee the lesser mystery at the feast
Whereof the greater mystery is death!
Seal up the hundred wakeful eyes of thought
O peaceful Sleep! until from pain released
For I am weary, and am overwrought
The hundred wakeful eyes of Argus bound;
As Hermes with his lyre in sleep profound
Lay thy soft hand upon my brow and cheek,
Lull me to sleep, ye winds, whose fitful sound
With too much toil, with too much care distraught,
Seems from some faint Aeolian harp-string caught;
Ah, with what subtile meaning did the Greek
And with the iron crown of anguish crowned.
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