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SLEEP by JOHN WOLCOTT

Poet Analysis

First Line: COME, GENTLE SLEEP! ATTEND THY VOTARY'S PRAYER
Last Line: AND, WITHOUT DYING, O HOW SWEET TO DIE!
Subject(s): REST; SLEEP;
Come, gentle sleep! attend thy votary's prayer,
And, though death's image, to my couch repair;
How sweet, though lifeless, yet with life to lie,
And, without dying, O how sweet to die!


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