Classic Poem

Sleep! ruler of the midnight hour,
Thy courted influence shed,
With gentle, but resistless, pow'r
Upon thy vot'ry's head:

Fancy, with soothing dreams inspire,
To give repose its charms,
And bring the nymph I most admire,
My Delia, to my arms.

What ask I more? Let dreams like these
Arise to Delia's view,
And I her sleeping fancy please,
That she may wish them true.