Picture Show (Sassoon collection)/Slumber-Song
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SLUMBER-SONG
Sleep; and my song shall build about your bedA Paradise of dimness. You shall feelThe folding of tired wings; and peace will dwellThroned in your silence: and one hour shall holdSummer, and midnight, and immensityLulled to forgetfulness. For, where you dream,The stately gloom of foliage shall embowerYour slumbering thought with tapestries of blue.And there shall be no memory of the sky,Nor sunlight with its cruelty of swords.But, to your soul that sinks from deep to deepThrough drowned and glimmering colour, Time shall beOnly slow rhythmic swaying; and your breath;And roses in the darkness; and my love.