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Sleep-book

XLIII.

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Soon, trembling in her soft and chilly nest,

In sort of wakeful swoon, perplex'd she lay

Until the poppied warmth of sleep oppress'd

Her soothed limbs, and soul fatigued away;

Flown, like a thought, until the morrow-day,

Blissfully haven'd both from joy and pain,

Clasp'd like a missal where swart Paynims pray;

Blended alike from sunshine and from rain,

As though a rose could shut and be a bud again.

John Keats.

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