Poems (Taylor)/Asleep

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ASLEEP
The waxen taper faintly gleamed,
 And waxen-white she lay
Upon her silken bed, and dreamed,—
 Dreamed of her wedding-day.

Her hand upon a scroll was cast,
 Where it was writ in red:
"Each lover-errant holds at last
 His lady's golden head."

But, bowed as one that sorroweth,
 The sombre Nympholept,
The Lover of the Virgins,—Death
 His quiet vigil kept.

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