Versos English Cale Young Rice Ii

English poem

Ii

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Listen in the reader

I have wakened out of my sleep because I too Am wistful, Tristeful; Because I know that half of me is gone, And that all frailty cries in the cricket's tone.

I have wakened out of my sleep to watch and listen. For what? To see for a moment universes glisten; To wonder and want--and go to sleep again, And die, And be forgot.