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Close the book and dim the light, / I shall read no more to-night.
No -- I am not sleepy, dear -- / Do not go: sit by me here / In the darkness and the deep / Silence of the watch I keep.
Something in your presence so / Soothes me -- as in long ago / I first felt your hand -- as now -- / In the darkness touch my brow; / I've no other wish than you / Thus should fold mine eyelids to, / Saying nought of sigh or tear -- / Just as God were sitting here.