Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II.
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Chapter 20 No.20

While she spake my heart did leap.

Waking is man's life, and sleep-

What is sleep?-a little death

Coming after, and methought

Life is mine and death is nought

Till it come,-so day is mine

I will risk the sleep to shine

In the waking.

And she saith,

In a soft voice clear and low,

'Give thy plumèd cap also

For a token

            
            

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