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THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 92 by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE

First Line: WHO, WAKING AS FROM SLEEP, BEWILDER'D GAZED
Last Line: O SPEAK! FOR THY SOFT EYES COMPASSION WAKEN.'
Subject(s): DREAMS; LOVE; MEMORY; NIGHTMARES;

Who, waking as from sleep, bewilder'd gazed
About the gloom-lit place in wan dismay;
Then dwelt upon that gentle dame amazed,
And faintly came her voice from far away,
'Some troublous dream hath all my senses dazed:
Methought that in my winding sheet I lay,
And that my love had ever me forsaken—
O speak! for thy soft eyes compassion waken.'



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