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'Tis morning now yet silently I stand	A
Uplift the curtain with a weary hand	A
Look out while darkness overspreads the way	B
And long for day	B
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Calm peace is frighted with my mood to night	C
Nor visits my dull chamber with her light	C
To guide my senses into her sweet rest	D
And leave me blest	D
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Long hours since the city rocked and sung	E
Itself to slumber only the stars swung	E
Aloft their torches in the midnight skies	F
With watchful eyes	F
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No sound awakes I even breathe no sigh	G
Nor hear a single footstep passing by	G
Yet I am not alone for now I feel	H
A presence steal	H
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Within my chamber walls I turn to see	I
The sweetest guest that courts humanity	I
With subtle slow enchantment draws she near	J
And Sleep is here	K
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What care I for the olive branch of Peace	L
Kind Sleep will bring a thrice distilled release	L
Nepenthes that alone her mystic hand	A
Can understand	A
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And so she bends this welcome sorceress	L
To crown my fasting with her light caress	L
Ah sure my pain will vanish at the bliss	L
Of her warm kiss	L
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But still my duty lies in self denial	M
I must refuse sweet Sleep although the trial	M
Will reawaken all my depth of pain	N
So once again	O
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I lift the curtain with a weary hand	A
With more than sorrow silently I stand	A
Look out while darkness overspreads the way	B
And long for day	B
	-
Go Sleep I say before the darkness die	G
To one who needs you even more than I	G
For I can bear my part alone but he	I
Has need of thee	I
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His poor tired eyes in vain have sought relief	P
His heart more tired still with all its grief	P
His pain is deep while mine is vague and dim	Q
Go thou to him	Q
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When thou hast fanned him with thy drowsy wings	L
And laid thy lips upon the pulsing strings	L
That in his soul with fret and fever burn	R
To me return	R
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She goes The air within the quiet street	S
Reverberates to the passing of her feet	S
I watch her take her passage through the gloom	T
To your dear home	U
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Beloved would you knew how sweet to me	I
Is this denial and how fervently	I
I pray that Sleep may lift you to her breast	D
And give you rest	D
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A privilege that she alone can claim	V
Would that my heart could comfort you the same	V
But in the censer Sleep is swinging high	G
All sorrows die	G
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She comes not back yet all my miseries	L
Wane at the thought of your calm sleeping eyes	L
Wane as I hear the early matin bell	W
The dawn foretell	W
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And so dear heart still silently I stand	A
Uplift the curtain with a weary hand	A
The long long night has bitter been and lone	X
But now 'tis gone	Y
	-
Dawn lights her candles in the East once more	Z
And darkness flees her chariot before	Z
The Lenten morning breaks with holy ray	B
And it is day	B

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