BODY <br /> <br />1 Farewell! I go to sleep; but when <br />2 The day-star springs, I'll wake again. <br /> <br />SOUL <br /> <br />3 Go, sleep in peace; and when thou liest <br />4 Unnumber'd in thy dust, when all this frame <br />5 Is but one dram, and what thou now descriest <br />6 In sev'ral parts shall want a name, <br />7 Then may his peace be with thee, and each dust <br />8 Writ in his book, who ne'er betray'd man's trust! <br /> <br />BODY <br /> <br />9 Amen! but hark, ere we two stray <br />10 How many hours dost think 'till day? <br /> <br />SOUL <br /> <br />11 Ah go; th'art weak, and sleepy. Heav'n <br />12 Is a plain watch, and without figures winds <br />13 All ages up; who drew this circle, even <br />14 He fills it; days and hours are blinds. <br />15 Yet this take with thee. The last gasp of time <br />16 Is thy first breath, and man's eternal prime.<br /><br />Henry Vaughan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-evening-watch-a-dialogue/
