A Version of Alcman's "Sleep" poem

Dormant are pinnacles and streams of the mountains,
Chasms and bluffs and crawlers fed by the dark earth;
Dormant are wild animals and that tribe of bees
And monsters out of the sea"s dark syntax;
Dormant are clans of birds with wings that envelop.
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Alcman
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