[00:55.32]At midnight in the month of June
[01:01.95]I stand beneath the mystic moon
[01:08.68]An opiate vapor dewy dim
[01:14.74]Exhales from out her golden rim
[01:21.12]And softly dripping drop by drop
[01:27.56]Upon the quiet mountain top
[01:34.06]Steals drowsily and musically
[01:40.24]Into the universal valley
[01:46.74]The rosemary nods upon the grave
[01:53.31]The lily lolls upon the wave
[01:59.74]Wrapping the fog about its breast
[02:05.93]The ruin molders into rest
[02:12.56]Looking like Lethe see! the lake
[02:18.75]A conscious slumber seems to take
[02:25.81]And would not for the world awake
[02:31.62]And would not for the world awake
[02:37.99]All Beauty sleeps!- and lo! where lies
[02:44.31]the skace men dou ben till the sky
[02:51.14]Irene with her Destinies!
[03:03.76]O lady bright! can it be right-
[03:10.01]This window open to the night
[03:16.39]The wanton airs from the tree-top
[03:22.70]Laughingly through the lattice drop-
[03:29.08]The bodiless airs a wizard rout
[03:35.58]Flit through thy chamber in and out
[03:41.89]And wave the curtain canopy
[03:48.14]So fitfully- so cearfully-
[05:41.58]Above the closed and fringed lid
[05:47.27]''Neath which thy slumb′′ring soul lies hid
[05:53.70]That o′′er the floor and down the wall
[06:00.08]Like ghosts the shadows rise and fall!
[06:07.02]Oh lady dear hast thou no fear
[06:12.89]Why and what art thou dreaming here
[06:19.33]Sure thou art come O′′er far-off seas
[06:25.70]A wonder to these garden trees!
[07:11.64]Strange is thy pallor! strange thy dress
[07:17.02]Strange above all thy length of tress
[07:22.52]And this all this
[07:29.89]And this all solemn silentness!
[07:36.27]My lover sleeps! Oh may her sleep
[07:42.58]Which is enduring so be deep!
[07:49.70]Heaven have her in its sacred keep!
[08:01.58]This chamber changed for one more holy
[08:08.52]This bed for one more melancholy
[08:13.77]I pray to God that he may lie
[08:21.02]For ever with unopened eye
[08:28.14]While the pale sheeted ghosts go by!
[09:33.77]My love she sleeps! Oh may her sleep
[09:36.58]As it is lasting so be deep!
[09:39.33]Soft may the worms about her creep!
[09:42.95]May the worms about her creep!
[09:45.70]My love she sleeps! Oh may her sleep
[09:48.58]As it is lasting so be deep!
[09:51.64]Soft may the worms about her creep!
[09:54.70]May the worms about her creep!
[10:22.95]Far in the forest dim and old
[10:28.33]For her may some tall vault unfold-
[10:34.14]Some vault that of the flung its black
[10:40.64]And winged panels fluttering back
[10:46.96]Triumphant o′′er the crested palls
[10:53.02]Of her grand family funerals-
[10:59.14]Some sepulchre remote alone
[11:05.27]Against whose portal she hath thrown
[11:12.02]In childhood many an idle stone-
[11:23.52]Some tomb from out whose sounding door
[11:29.64]She never shall force an echo more
[11:36.50]Thrilling to think poor child of sin!
[11:43.12]It was the dead who groaned within
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