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In A Chair

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The room is full of the peace of night,         The small flames murmur and flicker and sway,         Within me is neither shadow, nor light,         Nor night, nor twilight, nor dawn, nor day.         For the brain strives not to the goal of thought,         And the limbs lie wearied, and all desire         Sleeps for a while, and I am naught         But a pair of eyes that gaze at a fire.

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"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

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