In The Cold Night

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Title:     In The Cold Night
Author: Edward Powys Mathers [More Titles by Mathers]

Reading in my book this cold night,
I have forgotten to go to sleep.
The perfumes have died on the gilded bed-cover;
The last smoke must have left the hearth
When I was not looking.
My beautiful friend snatches away the lamp.
Do you know what the time is?

From the Chinese of Yuan Mei (1715-1797).

[The end]
Edward Powys Mathers's poem: In The Cold Night

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