Now I lay (with everywhere around)
me (the great dim deep sound
of rain; and of always and of nowhere) and
what a gently welcoming darkestness -

now I lay me down (in a most steep
more than music) feeling that sunlight is
(life and day are) only loaned: whereas
night is given (night and death and the rain

are given; and given is how beautifully snow)

now I lay me down to dream of (nothing
I or any somebody or you
can begin to begin to imagine)

something which nobody may keep.
now I lay me down to dream of Spring