Classic Poem

Awake! Awake! fair sleeper, Awake and view the night
For the armies clad in diamond mail, now shed abroad their light
Come forth! with me fair sleeper, & perchance upon our ears
While we walk may fall the solemn chime of the music of the spheres

We will go to the huge forest & hearken to the sound
Like the voices of a hundred streams, that ever rushes round
Of nodding boughs & branches, great plumes—that wave on high
And hide with their thick darkness. the star bespangled sky

And haply as we tread beneath, that black embowred shade
Full on our sight may sudden burst, some moon illumined glade
Where with crowns of radiant adamant, & robes of vernal green
The morrice dancing fairy train, in other times were seen

Or shall we wander by the side, of ancient oceans shore
Where dull thunder of the billows is sounding evermore
And gaze into the mighty depths, whence comes that wildring sound
On the swift winds of heaven, dispersing all around

There dwell great dragons of the deep, & issuing from their caves
Our eyes may view them gliding amid the liquid waves
Or solemnly withdrawn into tenebrious gloom
With noiseless movement ent[e]ring their coral shaded tomb

While still sad music rises from regions far beneath
At which the winds hush every sound of sigh & murmured breath
Unseen the sweet musician, but still the tones—ascend
And e'en the everlasting rocks, their cloud-veild summits bend

It is the maiden of the sea, that sings within her cell
Where she with gold & orient pearl, in glimering gloom doth dwell
And when her, monstrous form is seen swift gliding o'er the deep
The Blood within the sailors veins, in frozen streams doth creep

For mighty winds behind her fly and clouds are round her shed
And lurid lightnings flashing, wreath the green locks on her head
But she shall bode no storm for us to rack the lucid skies
Then awake! Awake fair sleeper, & unclose thine azure eyes