Lights Out + 

I have come to the borders of sleep, + 

The unfathomable deep + 

Forest where all must lose + 

Their way, however straight, + 

Or winding, soon or late; + 

They cannot choose. + 

Many a road and track + 

That, since the dawn’s first crack, + 

Up to the forest brink, + 

Deceived the travellers + 

Suddenly now blurs, + 

And in they sink. + 

Here love ends, + 

Despair, ambition ends, + 

All pleasure and all trouble, + 

Although most sweet or bitter, + 

Here ends in sleep that is sweeter + 

Than tasks most noble. + 

There is not any book + 

Or face of dearest look + 

That I would not turn from now + 

To go into the unknown + 

I must enter and leave alone + 

I know not how. + 

The tall forest towers; + 

Its cloudy foliage lowers + 

Ahead, shelf above shelf; + 

Its silence I hear and obey + 

That I may lose my way + 

And myself. + 