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Correct The City Of Sleep Lyrics
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Rudyard Kipling
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Correct The City Of Sleep
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Over the edge of the purple down, Where the single lamplight gleams, Know ye the road to the Merciful Town That is hard by the Sea of Dreams-- Where the poor may lay their wrongs away, And the sick may forget to weep? But we--pity us! Oh, pity us! We wakeful; ah, pity us! -- We must go back with Policeman Day-- Back from the City of Sleep! Weary they turn from the scroll and crown, Fetter and prayer and plough-- They that go up to the Merciful Town, For her gates are closing now. It is their right in the Baths of Night Body and soul to steep, But we--pity us! ah, pity us! We wakeful; oh, pity us!-- We must go back with Policeman Day-- Back from the City of Sleep! Over the edge of the purple down, Ere the tender dreams begin, Look--we may look--at the Merciful Town, But we may not enter in! Outcasts all, from her guarded wall Back to our watch we creep: We--pity us! ah, pity us! We wakeful; oh, pity us!-- We that go back with Policeman Day-- Back from the City of Sleep!
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