Sleeping Together

 Sleeping together.
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 how tired you were.
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How warm our room.
.
.
 how the firelight spread
On walls and ceiling and great white bed!
We spoke in whispers as children do,
And now it was I--and then it was you
Slept a moment, to wake--"My dear,
I'm not at all sleepy," one of us said.
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Was it a thousand years ago?
I woke in your arms--you were sound asleep--
And heard the pattering sound of sheep.

Softly I slipped to the floor and crept
To the curtained window, then, while you slept,
I watched the sheep pass by in the snow.


O flock of thoughts with their shepherd Fear
Shivering, desolate, out in the cold,
That entered into my heart to fold!

A thousand years.
.
.
 was it yesterday
When we two children of far away,
Clinging close in the darkness, lay
Sleeping together?.
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 How tired you were.
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