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Song for an Unwritten Play.

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The moon's a drowsy fool to-night,         Wrapped in fleecy clouds and white;         And all the while Endymion         Sleeps on Latmos top alone.         Not a single star is seen:         They are gathered round their queen,         Keeping vigil by her bed,         Patient and unwearid.         Now the poet drops his pen         And moves about like other men:         Tom o' Bedlam now is still         And sleeps beneath the hawthorn'd hill.         Only the Latmian shepherd deems         Something missing from his dreams         And tosses as he sleeps alone.         Alas, alas, Endymion!

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