A long, long sleep, a famous sleep

March 7, 2009 in Poems, Time and Eternity | No comments

A long, long sleep, a famous sleepA long, long sleep, a famous sleep
That makes no show for dawn
By stretch of limb or stir of lid, –
An independent one.

Was ever idleness like this?
Within a hut of stone
To bask the centuries away
Nor once look up for noon?

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