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SLUMBER SONG (1) by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: SLEEP! THE SPIRITS THAT ATTEND
Last Line: ALL THE SLEEPING AND THE DEAD.
Subject(s): SLEEP;
Sleep! the spirits that attend
On thy waking hours are fled.
Heaven thou canst not now offend
Till thy slumber-plumes are shed;

Consciousness alone doth lend
Life its pain, and death its dread;
Innocence and peace befriend
All the sleeping and the dead.



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