Sleepy World



Here, where the world is quiet;
Here, where all trouble seems
Dead winds' and spent waves' riot
In doubtful dreams of dreams;
I watch the green field growing
For reaping folk and sowing
For harvest-time and mowing,
A sleepy world of streams.

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







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