The very sense of where I was might well
Keep Sleep aloof: but more than that there came
Thought after thought to nourish up the flame
Within my breast; so that the morning light
Surprised me even from a sleepless night;
And up I rose refresh'd, and glad, and gay,
Resolving to begin that very day
These lines; and howsoever they be done,
I leave them as a father does his son.
_Finis_.
Corrections
Three spelling errors were corrected for the Project Gutenberg edition.
The original lines appeared in the 1817 edition as follows:
To * * * *
Line 10: Like to streaks across the sky,
To Charles Cowden Clarke
Line 82: Of my rough verses not an hour mispent;
Sleep and Poetry
Line 181: Could all this be forgotten? Yes, a scism
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