'Night Speaks' <br /> <br />GRATEFUL is Sleep, my life in stone bound fast; <br />More grateful still: while wrong and shame shall last, <br />On me can Time no happier state bestow <br />Than to be left unconscious of the woe. <br />Ah then, lest you awaken me, speak low. <br />Grateful is Sleep, more grateful still to be <br />Of marble; for while shameless wrong and woe <br />Prevail, 'tis best to neither hear nor see. <br />Then wake me not, I pray you. Hush, speak low. <br />Come, gentle Sleep, Death's image tho' thou art, <br />Come share my couch, nor speedily depart; <br />How sweet thus living without life to lie, <br />Thus without death how sweet it is to die.<br /><br />William Wordsworth<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/michael-angelo-in-reply-to-the-passage-upon-his-staute-of-sleeping-night/
