Classic Poem

Well ! Let him sleep! Time enough to awake
 When sunset ushers a kind release,
When cooling shadows the raft overtake.

For Madelon's heart will never break
 For Alphonse, but for Verrier, fils ,
So—let him sleep! Time enough to awake

When Verrier, dressed for Madelon's sake
 In his best, is up the river a piece,
When cooling shadows the raft overtake.

A Carmen—she—whose eyelashes make
 Havoc with all—old Boucher's niece—
So—let him sleep! Time enough to awake,

For a desperate thing is a bad heart-ache,
 And one that may not entirely cease
When cooling shadows the raft overtake

If they met, who knows—a spring, a shake,
 A jack-knife, deadly as Malay crease—
Hush! Let him sleep! Time enough to awake
When cooling shadows the raft overtake.