Poems (Taylor)/Sleep-Song

For works with similar titles, see Sleep-Song.
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SLEEP-SONG
The sunken bell is ringing up through the sea of sleep.
     Ah! can you hear it,
     And not fear it,
Mine own bright sea-bird winging down through the sea of sleep?

There's many a strange mermaiden beneath the sea of sleep;
    And drowned white hands
    Upon the sands,
And argosies unfaden beneath the sea of sleep.

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But they that sink together down through the sea of sleep,
    In one dream charmèd
    Lie unharmèd.—
Love, if we sank together beneath the sea of sleep!

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