ENDYMION

Kaarlo Sarkia(1902-1945)

Sleep in your cave, forever-young,

blossoms on your brow.

Enclosed are you by the mount of your dreams,

your dreams the cocoon of a butterfly,

you are a master of the ages.

Family after family dies,

you live, Endymion.

In the mount of sleep forever slumber,

never shall be full the count of your days,

the youthfulness of a dream is immortal.

(Endymion, 1929.)

Original rhyme is ABAAB.

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