Cradle-Song at Twilight
 
The child not yet is lulled to rest.
   Too young a nurse, the slender Night
So laxly holds him to her breast
   That throbs with flight.
 
He plays with her, and will not sleep.
   For other playfellows she sighs;
An unmaternal fondness keep
   Her alien eyes.


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Created April 11, 2001; not revised.