Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols |
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[Oh! Sleep! thou never com'st to me without]
Oh! Sleep! thou never com'st to me withoutA glorious pomp of dreams to swell thy state,
Another Life thou art—another Fate—
A most dear refuge from the cloudy rout
Of cares and fears, and thoughts of strife and doubt,
That blight my waking hours, let bright joys wait
Upon me now—Oh! honey Sleep create
A new World for me—sweetly shed about
Thy precious dew's revivifying shower,
And I another Being shall become;
No more shall Hope deceive or Memory lower,
No more shall I be slave to wrath and gloom,
No more shall poisonous Nightshade dim my bower,
Nor keen frosts crush, each joy's new budding bloom!
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