Dorothy Parker

Sight

Unseemly are the open eyes
 That watch the midnight sheep,
That look upon the secret skies
 Nor close, abashed, in sleep;
 
That see the dawn drag in, unbidden,
 To birth another day–
Oh, better far their gaze were hidden
 Below the decent clay.
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