Sleep

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What is good for fever, except sleep?
What is good for love, but to forget?
Bury love deep,
Deeper than sound sleep,
And let
Fever drowse a little, and the heart forget.

Time shall heal fever, if death come not;
What shall heal love, except only death?
Though joy be forgot,
If death quiet not
Thy breath,
Time shall waken sorrow in the heart till death.

© Arthur Symons