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SLEEP (2) by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS

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First Line: WHAT IS GOOD FOR FEVER, EXCEPT SLEEP
Last Line: TIME SHALL WAKEN SORROW IN THE HEART TILL DEATH.
Subject(s): SLEEP;

What is good for fever, except sleep?
What is good for love, but to forget?
Bury love deep,
Deeper than sound sleep,
And let
Fever drowse a little, and the heart forget.

Time shall heal fever, if death come not;
What shall heal love, except only death?
Though joy be forgot,
If death quiet not
Thy breath,
Time shall waken sorrow in the heart till death.



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