<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510940" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The City of Sleep</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Over the edge of the purple down,<br>Where the single lamplight gleams,<br>Know ye the road to the Merciful Town<br>That is hard by the Sea of Dreams--<br>Where the poor may lay their wrongs away,<br>And the sick may forget to weep?<br>But we--pity us! Oh, pity us!<br>We wakeful; ah, pity us! --<br>We must go back with Policeman Day--<br>Back from the City of Sleep!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Weary they turn from the scroll and crown,<br>Fetter and prayer and plough--<br>They that go up to the Merciful Town,<br>For her gates are closing now.<br>It is their right in the Baths of Night<br>Body and soul to steep,<br>But we--pity us! ah, pity us!<br>We wakeful; oh, pity us!--<br>We must go back with Policeman Day--<br>Back from the City of Sleep!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Over the edge of the purple down,<br>Ere the tender dreams begin,<br>Look--we may look--at the Merciful Town,<br>But we may not enter in!<br>Outcasts all, from her guarded wall<br>Back to our watch we creep:<br>We--pity us! ah, pity us!<br>We wakeful; oh, pity us!--<br>We that go back with Policeman Day--<br>Back from the City of Sleep!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510940" data-title="The City of Sleep de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="Over the edge of the purple down, Where the single lamplight gleams, Know ye the road to the Merciful Town That is hard by the Sea of Dreams-- Where the poor may lay their wrongs away, And the sick may forget to weep? But we--pity us! Oh, pity us!..."></div> </div> </div>

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