Classic Poem

Night Speaks.
Grateful is Sleep, my life in stone bound fast
More grateful still: while wrong and shame shall last,
On me can time no happier state bestow
Than to be left unconscious of the woe.
Ah then, lest you awaken me, speak low.
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Grateful is Sleep, more grateful still to be
Of marble; for while shameless wrong and woe
Prevail 'tis best to neither hear nor see:
Then wake me not, I pray you. Hush, speak low.