Long night
o if night would adjourn to an organ
a more intelligible music to bring to bed
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 10 December 1667.
Dave Bonta
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o if night would adjourn to an organ
a more intelligible music to bring to bed
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 10 December 1667.
The speaker is lying awake in a long, restless night and wishes it would change into something easier to bear. The wish is oddly specific: that night would "adjourn," as if it were a meeting that could be called to an end, and move "to an organ." The word is probably meant in the musical sense, an…
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