SLEEPING TOGETHER
Sleepingtogether ... how tired you were ...How warm our room ... how the firelight spreadOn walls and ceiling and great white bed!We spoke in whispers as children do,And now it was I—and then it was youSlept a moment, to wake—“My dear,I’m not at all sleepy,” one of us said...Was it a thousand years ago?I woke in your arms—you were sound asleep—And heard the pattering sound of sheep.Softly I slipped to the floor and creptTo the curtained window, then, while you slept,I watched the sheep pass by in the snow.O flock of thoughts with their shepherd FearShivering, desolate, out in the cold,That entered into my heart to fold!A thousand years ... was it yesterdayWhen we, two children of far away,Clinging close in the darkness, laySleeping together?... How tired you were...
Sleepingtogether ... how tired you were ...How warm our room ... how the firelight spreadOn walls and ceiling and great white bed!We spoke in whispers as children do,And now it was I—and then it was youSlept a moment, to wake—“My dear,I’m not at all sleepy,” one of us said...Was it a thousand years ago?I woke in your arms—you were sound asleep—And heard the pattering sound of sheep.Softly I slipped to the floor and creptTo the curtained window, then, while you slept,I watched the sheep pass by in the snow.O flock of thoughts with their shepherd FearShivering, desolate, out in the cold,That entered into my heart to fold!A thousand years ... was it yesterdayWhen we, two children of far away,Clinging close in the darkness, laySleeping together?... How tired you were...
Sleepingtogether ... how tired you were ...How warm our room ... how the firelight spreadOn walls and ceiling and great white bed!We spoke in whispers as children do,And now it was I—and then it was youSlept a moment, to wake—“My dear,I’m not at all sleepy,” one of us said...
Was it a thousand years ago?I woke in your arms—you were sound asleep—And heard the pattering sound of sheep.Softly I slipped to the floor and creptTo the curtained window, then, while you slept,I watched the sheep pass by in the snow.
O flock of thoughts with their shepherd FearShivering, desolate, out in the cold,That entered into my heart to fold!A thousand years ... was it yesterdayWhen we, two children of far away,Clinging close in the darkness, laySleeping together?... How tired you were...