Eternal Sleep



Then star nor sun shall waken,
Nor any change of light:
Nor sound of waters shaken,
Nor any sound or sight;
Nor wintry leaves nor vernal,
Nor days nor things diurnal;
Only the sleep eternal
In an eternal night.

-Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909),
The Garden of Proserpine







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