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By Her White Bed.

By James Whitcomb Riley

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By her white bed I muse a little space:         She fell asleep - not very long ago, -         And yet the grass was here and not the snow -         The leaf, the bud, the blossom, and - her face! -         Midsummer's heaven above us, and the grace         Of Lovers own day, from dawn to afterglow;         The fireflies' glimmering, and the sweet and low         Plaint of the whip-poor-wills, and every place         In thicker twilight for the roses' scent.         Then night. - She slept - in such tranquility,         I walk atiptoe still, nor dare to weep,         Feeling, in all this hush, she rests content -         That though God stood to wake her for me, she         Would mutely plead: "Nay, Lord!    Let him so sleep."

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About James Whitcomb Riley

James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) was an American poet known as the "Hoosier Poet." His dialect poems—including "Little Orphant Annie" and "When the Frost Is on the Punkin"—celebrate rural Indiana life and childhood nostalgia.

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