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Come to me, gentle Sleep! I pine, I pine for thee! Come with thy spells, the soft, the deep, And set my spirit free!

Each lonely burning thought In twilight languor steep; Come to the full heart, long o'erwrought— O gentle, gentle Sleep!

Come with thine urn of dew, Sleep, gentle Sleep!— but bring No voice, love's yearnings to renew, No visions on thy wing!

Come, as to folding flowers, To birds, in forests deep;— Long, dark, and dreamless be thine hours, O gentle, gentle Sleep!