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Lullaby

Hush, lullay.

 

Your treasures all

 

Encrust with rust,

 

Your trinket pleasures fall

 

To dust.

 

 

 

Beneath the sapphire arch,

 

Upon the grassy floor,

 

Is nothing more

 

To hold,

 

And play is over-old.

 

Your eyes

 

In sleepy fever gleam,

 

Their lids droop

 

To their dream.

 

You wander late alone,

 

The flesh frets on the bone,

 

Your love fails in your breast,

 

Here is the pillow.

 

Rest.

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Leonie Adams
1899-1988 / American
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