Or something so unknown that it o’erpass

The thought of comfort, and the sense that gave

Cannot consider it thro’ any glass.

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Come gentle sleep, I woo thee: come and take

Not now the child into thine arms, from fright

Composed by drowsy tune and shaded light,

Whom ignorant of thee thou didst nurse and make;

Nor now the boy, who scorn’d thee for the sake

Of growing knowledge or mysterious night,