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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477672" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ere Sleep Comes Down To Soothe The Weary Eyes</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">ERE sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes,<br>Which all the day with ceaseless care have sought <br>The magic gold which from the seeker flies;<br>Ere dreams put on the gown and cap of thought,<br>And make the waking world a world of lies, —<br>Of lies most palpable, uncouth, forlorn,<br>That say life's full of aches and tears and sighs, —<br>Oh, how with more than dreams the soul is torn,<br>Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes.<br>Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes,<br>How all the griefs and heartaches we have known<br>Come up like pois'nous vapors that arise<br>From some base witch's caldron, when the crone<br>To work some potent spell, her magic plies.<br>The past which held its share of bitter pain,<br>Whose ghost we prayed that Time might exorcise,<br>Comes up, is lived and suffered o'er again,<br>Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes.<br>Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes,<br>What phantoms fill the dimly lighted room;<br>What ghostly shades in awe-creating guise<br>Are bodied forth within the teeming gloom.<br>What echoes faint of sad and soul-sick cries,<br>And pangs of vague inexplicable pain<br>That pay the spirit's ceaseless enterprise,<br>Come thronging through the chambers of the brain,<br>Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes.<br>Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes,<br>Where ranges forth the spirit far and free?<br>Through what strange realms and unfamiliar skies<br>Tends her far course to lands of mystery?<br>To lands unspeakable — beyond surmise,<br>Where shapes unknowable to being spring,<br>Till, faint of wing, the Fancy fails and dies<br>Much wearied with the spirit's journeying,<br>Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes.<br>Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes,<br>How questioneth the soul that other soul, —<br>The inner sense which neither cheats nor lies,<br>But self exposes unto self, a scroll<br>Full writ with all life's acts unwise or wise,<br>In characters indelible and known;<br>So, trembling with the shock of sad surprise,<br>The soul doth view its awful self alone,<br>Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes.<br>When sleep comes down to seal the weary eyes,<br>The last dear sleep whose soft embrace is balm, <br>And whom sad sorrow teaches us to prize<br>For kissing all our passions into calm,<br>Ah, then, no more we heed the sad world's cries,<br>Or seek to probe th' eternal mystery,<br>Or fret our souls at long-withheld replies,<br>At glooms through which our visions cannot see,<br>When sleep comes down to seal the weary eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Laurence+Dunbar">Paul Laurence Dunbar</a><div class=q>
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Which all the day with ceaseless care have sought 
The magic gold which from the seeker flies;
Ere dreams put on the gown and cap of thought,
And make the waking world a world of lies, —
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