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FROM SAGESSE by PAUL VERLAINE

Poem Explanation Poet Analysis

First Line: SLUMBER DARK AND DEEP
Last Line: SILENCE, LIKE THE GRAVE.
Subject(s): DREAMS; REST; SILENCE; SLEEP; NIGHTMARES;
SLUMBER dark and deep
Falls across my life;
I will put to sleep
Hope, desire and strife.

All things pass away,
Good and evil seem
To my soul to-day
Nothing but a dream;

I a cradle laid
In a hollow cave,
By a great hand swayed:
Silence, like the grave.



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