Poems on Several Occasions ... To which is added, the Plague of Wealth, Occasion'd By the Author's receiving fifty Pounds from his Excellency the Lord Carteret, for the foremention'd Ode. With several Poems not in the Dublin Edition. By Matthew Pilkington. Revised by the Reverend Dr. Swift |
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AN HYMN to SLEEP. |
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AN HYMN to SLEEP.
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God of Sleep, for whom I languish,God of Golden Dreams and Peace,
Gently sooth a Lover's Anguish,
Help to make his Tortures cease:
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Lull the busy Soul to rest,
Then, bring her I love before me,
She that's painted in my Breast.
II
If kind as fair, my Prize I'll keep,And, great as Jove, the World forsake;
Let me, thus bless'd, for ever sleep,
And lye, and dream, and never wake;
But, shou'd the Fair, divinely bright,
Reject my Vows, and scorn my Flame,
Fly, fly, kind Sleep, restore the Light,
Let Strephon see 'twas all a Dream.
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