To Sleep

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1. O soft embalmer of the still midnight,
2. Shutting, with careful fingers and benign,
3. Our gloom-pleased eyes, embower'd from the light,
4. Enshaded in forgetfulness divine:
5. O soothest Sleep! if so it please thee, close,
6. In midst of this thine hymn, my willing eyes,
7. Or wait the amen, ere thy poppy throws
8. Around my bed its dewy charities;
9. Then save me, or the passed day will shine
10. Upon my pillow, breeding many woes;
11. Save me from curious conscience, that still lords
12. Its strength for darkness, burrowing like a mole;
13. Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards,
14. And seal the hushed casket of my soul.