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First Line: Nights soft armor welds me into thought
Last Line: Its steady course.
Subject(s): Night; Bedtime


Night's soft armor welds me into thought
Pliant and all engaging; warm dark,
No scintillations to distract
Nor any restless ray, moon-shot.
I am still of all but breathing—
No throbbing eye, no pulse; and a hushed heart.

Sometimes at rest, the bones assume
World's weight, hold us dumb
We cannot lift a finger, flick
An eyelash, wag a tongue;
Breath is the only fluctuation in
Death's posture, stony, dumb.

Then is all sound fled
Flown from the fluted ear
Wind in the heavy head
Can find no corridor

And then is sight so bound
Lids petrified to earth
Only one light is found—
Imagination's going forth!

Only the heaven sent
Pulse of the universe
Beats through the buried heart
Its steady course.





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