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Poems

By Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

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VII
MORNING DREAMS

I asked of Night, that she would take me
Where I could not go by day.
I asked of Day, he should not wake me
Ere the sun was on his way;

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For as the sun steals from the flowers
The crystal dew by which they live,
He kills the memory of those hours
Which Night, for my delight, will give.