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SONG by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS

First Line: WHEN THE WORLD'S ASLEEP
Last Line: OR FLY WITHIN AND BID THEM CLOSE THE GATE?
Subject(s): FAREWELL; GRIEF; HEARTS; LOVE - LOSS OF; TEARS; PARTING; SORROW; SADNESS;
WHEN the world's asleep,
I awake and weep,
Deeply sighing say,
"Come, O break of day,
Lead my feet in my beloved's way."

When the morning breaks,
When the world awakes,
Then a dream too dear,
Haunts me like a fear,
And as one in sleep I linger here.

If some star of heaven
Led him by at even,
If same magic fate
Brought him, should I wait,
Or fly within and bid them close the gate?


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