Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine.

 

Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine.
--
Dreamthorp: Essays written in the Country (1863).

 

Alexander Smith

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Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen,
Fallen from his high estate,
And welt'ring in his blood;
Deserted, at his utmost need,
By those his former bounty fed,
On the bare earth exposed he lies,
With not a friend to close his eyes.

 

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