SISTER Simplicitie, <br />Sing, sing a song to me, <br />Sing me to sleep. <br />Some legend low and long, <br />Slow as the summer song <br />Of the dull Deep. <br /> <br />Some legend long and low, <br />Whose equal ebb and flow <br />To and fro creep <br />On the dim marge of gray <br />’Tween the soul’s night and day, <br />Washing “awake” away <br />Into “asleep.” <br /> <br />Some legend low and long, <br />Never so weak or strong <br />As to let go <br />While it can hold this heart <br />Withouten sigh or smart, <br />Or as to hold this heart <br />When it sighs “No.” <br /> <br />Some long low swaying song, <br />As the sway’d shadow long <br />Sways to and fro <br />Where, thro’ the crowing cocks, <br />And by the swinging clocks, <br />Some weary mother rocks <br />Some weary woe. <br /> <br />Sing up and down to me <br />Like a dream-boat at sea, <br />So, and still so, <br />Float through the “then” and “when,” <br />Rising from when to then, <br />Sinking from then to when <br />While the waves go. <br /> <br />Low and high, high and low, <br />Now and then, then and now, <br />Mow, now; <br />And when the now is then, and when the then is now, <br />And when the low is high, and when the high is low, <br />Low, low; <br />Let me float, let the boat <br />Go, go; <br />Let me glide, let me slide <br />Slow, slow; <br />Gliding boat, sliding boat, <br />Slow, slow; <br />Glide away, slide away <br />So, so.<br /><br />Sydney Thompson Dobell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fragment-of-a-sleep-song/
