Robert Herrick. To Music, to Becalm a Sweet-Sick Youth.

TO MUSIC, TO BECALM A SWEET-SICK YOUTH.
by Robert Herrick

CHARMS, that call down the moon from out her sphere,
On this sick youth work your enchantments here :
Bind up his senses with your numbers so
As to entrance his pain, or cure his woe.
Fall gently, gently, and a while him keep
Lost in the civil wilderness of sleep :
That done, then let him, dispossessed of pain,
Like to a slumb'ring bride, awake again.

Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 122.

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