To sleep forever in a quiet lair <br />in a den of beauty with never a care <br />is a pursuit I think that I shan't see. <br />But to even think of it is to me <br />more than I could hope for. <br /> <br />Amongst the flowers and trilling birds <br />to sleep a hundred years with words <br />and never a trouble to cross my mind <br />or ever a bleakness for me to find <br />is more than I could hope for. <br /> <br />But hope I do and hope I will <br />and when I feel my heart is still <br />I shall sleep forever like a babe in arms, <br />cradled and loved with no alarms <br />to wake me in the morn. <br />'Tis more than I could hope for.<br /><br />Edwina Reizer<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/more-than-i-could-hope-for/
