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SPIRITS by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES

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First Line: ANGEL SPIRITS OF SLEEP
Last Line: THREADING DANCES LIGHT?
Subject(s): SLEEP;
ANGEL spirits of sleep,
White-robed, with silver hair,
In your meadows fair,
Where the willows weep,
And the sad moonbeam
On the gliding stream
Writes her scatter'd dream:

Angel spirits of sleep,
Dancing to the weir
In the hollow roar
Of its waters deep;
Know ye how men say
That ye haunt no more
Isle and grassy shore
With your moonlit play;
That ye dance not here,
White-robed spirits of sleep,
All the summer night
Threading dances light?



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