Versos English Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem 112 (And one to make me slumber…)

English poem

Poem 112 (And one to make me slumber…)

by (1861–1907)

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And one to make me slumber, And one to bid me strive, But seven's the sacred number That keeps the soul alive.

And first and last of seven, And all the world and more, Is she I need in Heaven, And may not need before.