8. The Sleeping Child

Words & Music © 1997 by C.K. Latham

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What is your sleeping, your solemn rest?
I see no broken webs,
no movement from heath to hearth,
where, caught in time, you shut out the world.

Is your sleeping both world and timeless?
But I can see you; your
movement is after all me, whither and whence,
with which you’ve already convinced.