XX + 

Sonnet + 

The stars come out; the fragrant shadows fall + 

About a dreaming garden still and sweet, + 

I hear the unseen bats above me bleat + 

Among the ghostly moths their hunting call, + 

And twinkling glow-worms all about me crawl. + 

Now for a chamber dim, a pillow meet + 

For slumbers deep as death, a faultless sheet, + 

Cool, white and smooth. So may I reach the hall + 

With poppies strewn where sleep that is so dear + 

With magic sponge can wipe away an hour + 

Or twelve and make them naught. Why not a year, + 

Why could a man not loiter in that bower + 

Until a thousand painless cycles wore, + 

And then⁠—what if it held him evermore? + 