And has the earth lost its so spacious round, <br />The sky its blue circumference above, <br />That in this little chamber there is found <br />Both earth and heaven—my universe of love! <br />All that my God can give me, or remove, <br />Here sleeping, save myself, in mimic death. <br />Sweet that in this small compass I behove <br />To live their living and to breathe their breath! <br />Almost I wish that, with one common sigh, <br />We might resign all mundane care and strife, <br />And seek together that transcendent sky, <br />Where Father, Mother, Children, Husband, Wife, <br />Together pant in everlasting life!<br /><br />Thomas Hood<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lines-on-seeing-my-wife-and-two-children-sleeping-in-the-same-chamber/
