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Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes	A
Which all the day with ceaseless care have sought	B
The magic gold which from the seeker flies	A
Ere dreams put on the gown and cap of thought	B
And make the waking world a world of lies	A
Of lies most palpable uncouth forlorn	C
That say life's full of aches and tears and sighs	A
Oh how with more than dreams the soul is torn	C
Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes	A
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Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes	A
How all the griefs and heart aches we have known	D
Come up like pois'nous vapors that arise	A
From some base witch's caldron when the crone	D
To work some potent spell her magic plies	A
The past which held its share of bitter pain	E
Whose ghost we prayed that Time might exorcise	A
Comes up is lived and suffered o'er again	F
Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes	A
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Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes	A
What phantoms fill the dimly lighted room	G
What ghostly shades in awe creating guise	A
Are bodied forth within the teeming gloom	G
What echoes faint of sad and soul sick cries	A
And pangs of vague inexplicable pain	E
That pay the spirit's ceaseless enterprise	A
Come thronging through the chambers of the brain	E
Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes	A
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Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes	A
Where ranges forth the spirit far and free	H
Through what strange realms and unfamiliar skies	A
Tends her far course to lands of mystery	H
To lands unspeakable beyond surmise	A
Where shapes unknowable to being spring	I
Till faint of wing the Fancy fails and dies	A
Much wearied with the spirit's journeying	I
Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes	A
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Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes	A
How questioneth the soul that other soul	J
The inner sense which neither cheats nor lies	A
But self exposes unto self a scroll	J
Full writ with all life's acts unwise or wise	A
In characters indelible and known	D
So trembling with the shock of sad surprise	A
The soul doth view its awful self alone	D
Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes	A
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When sleep comes down to seal the weary eyes	A
The last dear sleep whose soft embrace is balm	K
And whom sad sorrow teaches us to prize	A
For kissing all our passions into calm	K
Ah then no more we heed the sad world's cries	A
Or seek to probe th' eternal mystery	H
Or fret our souls at long withheld replies	A
At glooms through which our visions cannot see	H
When sleep comes down to seal the weary eyes	A

Paul Laurence Dunbar

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