Sleeping together...

"Sleeping together... how tired you were!...
How warm our room... how the firelight spread
On walls and ceiling and great white bed!
We spoke in whispers as children do,
And now it was I - and then it was you
Slept a moment, to wake - "My dear,
I'm not at all sleepy", one of us said...
(...)
O flock of thoughts with their shepherd Fear
Shivering, desolate, out in the cold,
That enterd into my heart to fold!
A thousand years... was it yesterday
When we, two children of far away,
Clinging close in the darkness, lay
Sleeping together?... How tired you were!..."

Katherine Mansfield