Oh night and sleep, <br />Ye are so soft and deep, <br />I am so weary, come ye soon to me. <br />Oh hours that creep, <br />With so much time to weep, <br />I am so tired, can ye no swifter be? <br /> <br />Come, night, anear; <br />I'll whisper in thine ear <br />What makes me so unhappy, full of care; <br />Dear night, I die <br />For love that all men buy <br />With tears, and know not it is dark despair. <br /> <br />Dear night, I pray, <br />How is it that men say <br />That love is sweet? It is not sweet to me. <br />For one boy's sake <br />A poor girl's heart must break; <br />So sweet, so true, and yet it could not be! <br /> <br />Oh, I loved well, <br />Such love as none can tell: <br />It was so true, it could not make him know: <br />For he was blind, <br />All light and all unkind: <br />Oh, had he known, would he have hurt me so? <br /> <br />Oh night and sleep, <br />Ye are so soft and deep, <br />I am so weary, come ye soon to me. <br />Oh hours that creep, <br />With so much time to weep, <br />I am so tired, can ye no swifter be?<br /><br />Archibald Lampman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-song-36/
