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Paul Verlaine

Sleep, darksome, deep,
   Doth on me fall:
Vain hopes all, sleep,
   Sleep, yearnings all!

Lo, I grow blind!
   Lo, right and wrong
Fade to my mind….
   O sorry song!

A cradle, I,
   Rocked in a grave:
Speak low, pass by,
   Silence I crave!

Translated by Gertrude Hall

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From Poems of Paul Verlaine

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