Sleeping

by Emily Dickinson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880

ALONG, long sleep, a famous sleep

      That makes no show for dawn

By stretch of limb or stir of lid,—

      An independent one.


Was ever idleness like this?

      Within a hut of stone

To bask the centuries away

      Nor once look up for noon?

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