O come sweet sleep, and close my eyes with verse! br with drowsy metre, meet a deeper sleep; br to sleep, to dream, I never am averse - br to slumber numbed by poet's numbers deep; br br so, here's a verse that's very brief - a sonnet: br just fourteen lines to challenge your attention: br please rest your weary ears, I pray, upon it; br head up; back straight; let go of any tension; br br count the passing seconds to that time br -I'll indicate it with a final couplet - br when glorious English in immortal rhyme br blesses you with torpor's blissful duvet... br br and after tribute paid to Orpheus' charms, br with stifled yawn, depart to Morpheus' arms...