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Sleep on, my love! in thy cold bed Never to be disquieted! My last ‘Good night!’—thou wilt not wake Till I thy fate shall overtake— Till age, or grief, or sickness, must Marry my body to the dust It so much loves—and fill the room My heart keeps empty in thy tomb. Stay for me there! I will not fail To meet thee in that hollow vale: And think not much of my delay, I am already on the way, And follow thee with all the speed Desire can make, or sorrows breed. Each minute is a short degree, And every hour a step towards thee. At night when I betake to rest, Next morn I rise nearer my West Of life, almost by eight hours’ sail, Than when sleep breath’d his drowsy gale.
Sleep on, my love! in thy cold bed Never to be disquieted! My last ‘Good night!’—thou wilt not wake Till I thy fate shall overtake— Till age, or grief, or sickness, must Marry my body to the dust It so much loves—and fill the room My heart keeps empty in thy tomb. Stay for me there! I will not fail To meet thee in that hollow vale: And think not much of my delay, I am already on the way, And follow thee with all the speed Desire can make, or sorrows breed. Each minute is a short degree, And every hour a step towards thee. At night when I betake to rest, Next morn I rise nearer my West Of life, almost by eight hours’ sail, Than when sleep breath’d his drowsy gale.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Bishop King (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 551 · printed citation: Bishop King · subject: SLEEP
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