WAKEN not Amor from sleep! The beauteous urchin still slumbers;
Go, and complete thou the task, that to the day is assign’d!
Thus doth the prudent mother with care turn time to her profit,
While her babe is asleep, for ’twill awake but too soon.
1785.*
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
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