"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream." Vincent Van Gogh.
Tuesday, 8 October 2013
Sleep.
When all, and birds, and creeping beasts,
When the dark of night is deep,
From the moving wonder of their lives
Commit themselves to sleep.
Without a thought, or fear, they shut
The narrow gates of sense;
Heedless and quiet, in slumber turn,
Their strength to impotence.
The transient strangeness of the earth
Their spirits no more see:
With a golden silent gloom withdrawn,
They slumber in secrecy.
Two worlds they have--in gloom forgot,
Wheeling from dark to light:
And all the enchanted realm of dream
That burgeons out of night.
-Walter de la Mare.
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