Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

Archibald Y . Campbell . ANIMULA VAGULA . N IGHT stirs but wakens not, her breathings climb To one slow sigh ; the strokes of many twelves From unseen spires mechanically chime, Mingling like echoes , to frustrate themselves ; My soul, remember Time. The tones like smoke into the stillness curl, The slippered hours their placid business ply , And in thy hand there lies occasion 's pearl ; But thou art playing with it absently , And dreaming , like a girl.