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128 LEAG

"Sleep lays his heavy thumbs upon my eyes,

Shuts out all sounds and shakes me at the wrists.

By Nanny water where the salty mists

Weep o'er Riángabra let me stand deep

Beside my father. Sleep lays heavy thumbs

Upon my eyebrows, and I hear the sighs

Of far loud waters, and a troop that comes

With boughs of bells——"

CONALL "They come to you with sleep."