Stupefy my heart to every day's monotony, <br />Seal up my eyes, I would not look so far, <br />Chasten my steps to peaceful regularity, <br />Bow down my head lest I behold a star. <br />Fill my days with work, a thousand calm necessities <br />Leaving no moment to consecrate to hope, <br />Girdle my thoughts within the dull circumferences <br />Of facts which form the actual in one short hour's scope. <br /> <br />Give me dreamless sleep, and loose night's power over me, <br />Shut my ears to sounds only tumultuous then, <br />Bid Fancy slumber, and steal away its potency, <br />Or Nature wakes and strives to live again. <br /> <br />Let each day pass, well ordered in its usefulness, <br />Unlit by sunshine, unscarred by storm; <br />Dower me with strength and curb all foolish eagerness -- <br />The law exacts obedience. Instruct, I will conform.<br /><br />Amy Lowell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fatigue/
