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[SONETTO. DI GIOVANNI DELLA CASA.]

SONNET, TO SLEEP. TRANSLATION

1 Son of the silent, dark, and humid Night,
2 Consoler of the wretched, by whose sway
3 The gloomy train of ills are put to flight,
4 That blacken Life's uncertain, tedious day,
5 O! succour now this restless, pining heart!
6 Give to these feeble, weary limbs repose!
7 Fly to me Sleep! and let thy sombre wings
8 Over my couch their dusky plumes disclose!
9 O! where is Silence, who avoids the light?
10 Where the wild dreams that flutter in thy train?
11 Alas! in vain I call thee, cruel Night!
12 And flatter these insensate shades in vain.
13 And oh! without thy cheering dews are shed,
14 How full of hardships is the downy bed!

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Title (in Source Edition): [SONETTO. DI GIOVANNI DELLA CASA.] SONNET, TO SLEEP. TRANSLATION
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Betham, Mary Matilda, 1776-1852. Elegies and Other Small Poems, by Matilda Betham. Ipswich: Printed by W. Burrell, and sold by Longman, Paternoster-Row, and Jermyn and Forster, Ipswich, 1797, p. 101.  (ESTC T143264)

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