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Oh! my dear mother, art thou still awake? - ZaunköniG - 25.02.2008
Oh! my dear mother, art thou still awake?
Or art thou sleeping on thy Maker's arm, -
waiting in slumber for the shrill alarm
Ordain'd to give the world its final shake?
Art thou with 'interlunar night' opaque
Clad like a worm while waiting for its wings;
Or doth the shadow of departed things
Dwell on thy soul as on a breezeless lake!
Oh! would that I could see thee in thy heaven
For one brief hour, and know i was forgiven
For all the pain and doubt and rankling shame
Which i have caused to make thee weep or sigh.
Bootless the wish! for where thou art on high,
Sin casts no shadow, sorrow hath no name.