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Before sleep.(New poems)(Poem)
Before sleep Let me not lie here, mulling the day's anger, Rehearsing, if there have been such, its tears; Let no bitterness beckon, envy linger; Save me from Circe's, Medusa's, cruel stares. Let me slip to Sleep's Kingdom unencumbered By guilt I don't need, by guards who would ask me ...
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