A long, long sleep, a famous sleep
That makes no show for dawn
By strech of limb or stir of lid, –
An independent one.
Was ever idleness like this?
Within a hut of stone
To bask the centuries away
Nor once look up for noon?
A long, long sleep, a famous sleep
That makes no show for dawn
By strech of limb or stir of lid, –
An independent one.
Was ever idleness like this?
Within a hut of stone
To bask the centuries away
Nor once look up for noon?