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Written In A Sick Chamber.

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There, in that bed so closely curtain'd round,     Worn to a shade, and wan with slow decay,     A father sleeps! Oh hush'd be every sound!     Soft may we breathe the midnight hours away!          He stirs--yet still he sleeps. May heavenly dreams     Long o'er his smooth and settled pillow rise;     Till thro' the shutter'd pane the morning streams,     And on the hearth the glimmering rush-light dies.

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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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