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THE EVENING-WATCH; A DIALOGUE by HENRY VAUGHAN

Poet Analysis

First Line: FAREWELL! I GO TO SLEEP; BUT WHEN
Last Line: IS THY FIRST BREATH, AND MAN'S ETERNAL PRIME.
Subject(s): EASTER; HOLIDAYS; THE RESURRECTION;

Farewell! I go to sleep; but when @3Body@1.
The day-star springs, I'll wake again.
Go, sleep in peace; and when thou liest @3Soul@1.
Unnumbered in thy dust, when all this frame
Is but one dram, and what thou now descriest
In sev'ral parts shall want a name,
Then may his peace be with thee, and each dust
Writ in his book, who ne'er betrayed man's trust!
Amen! but hark, ere we two stray, @3Body@1.
How many hours dost think till day?
Ah! go; th'art weak and sleepy. Heav'n @3Soul@1.
Is a plain watch, and without figures winds
All ages up; who drew this circle even
He fills it; days and hours are @3blinds@1.
Yet, this take with thee; the last gasp of time
Is thy first breath, and man's @3eternal prime@1.



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