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THE ANGELS OF SLEEP 43
‘Two eyes, oh, two eyes made a snare and then drew it,
And who would escape must beware, and eschew it!
If only you knew it!
Yes, if you but guessed, this might be
A poem for you made by me,
Whose billowy lines just now fly
Up where you stand graceful and high!
But look you, this knowledge, to no purpose grew it,
I farther will go, Heaven guard, lest we rue it, —
If only you knew it!
THE ANGELS OF SLEEP
Asuezep the child fell
When night cast its spell;
The angels came near
With laughter and cheer.
Her watch at its waking the mother was keeping:
“How sweet, my dear child, was your smile now while
sleeping!”
To God mother went,
From home it was rent; -
Asleep the child fell
*Neath tears’ troublous spell.
But soon it heard laughter and mother-words tender;
The angels brought dreams full of childhood’s rare splen-
dor,
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