<h3 id="Song_of_the_Sleeper">Song of the Sleeper</h3>
<p>SLEEPER rest quietly<br/>
Deep underground!<br/>
Lord of your kingdom<br/>
Of murmurous sound.<br/>
Hear the grass growing<br/>
Sweet for the mowing;<br/>
Hear the stars sing<br/>
As they travel around—<br/>
Grass blade and star dust,<br/>
You, I, and all of us,<br/>
One with the cause of us,<br/>
Deep underground!</p>
<p>Murmur not, sleeper!<br/>
Yours is the key<br/>
To all things that were and<br/>
To all things that be—<br/>
While the lark’s trilling,<br/>
While the grain’s filling,<br/>
Laugh with the wind<br/>
At Life’s Riddle-me-ree!<br/>
How you were born of it?<br/>
Why was the thorn of it?<br/>
Where the new morn of it?<br/>
Yours is the Key!</p>
<p>Sleep deeper, brother!<br/>
Sleep and forget<br/>
Red lips that trembled<br/>
Eyes that were wet—<br/><!-- Page 63 -->
Though love be weeping,<br/>
Turn to your sleeping,<br/>
Life has no giving<br/>
That death need regret.<br/>
Here at the end of all<br/>
Hear the Beginning call,<br/>
Life’s but death’s seneschal—<br/>
Sleep and forget!</p>
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