Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, INVOCATION, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY


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First Line: Sleep of the cooled lids and breath of flowers
Last Line: Bring back the purple to my hills of dream.
Subject(s): Flowers; Science; Sleep; Tears; Youth; Scientists


Sleep of the cooled lids and breath of flowers,
O sleep of youth, dew-sandaled from the leas,
Throated with music of ensilvered showers
And silken winds that flash against the trees;
O summer sleep of passionate innocence,
Clean as the morning stars of doubt and pain,
If dreamful, not, oh, not at the expense
Of tears, but fresh with news from fancy's Spain --
Revisit with thy tranced healing sweet
These eyes that have forgot almost thy spell,
Sail back with all thy joyous-freighted fleet
Down the long azure of my spirit's swell.
And for thy traffic with that brooding stream
Bring back the purple to my hills of dream.





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