W. H. Auden Quote

Lay your sleeping head, my love
Human on my faithless arm;
Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children, and the grave
Proves the child ephemeral;
But in my arms till break of day
Let the living creature lie:
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.

Lay your sleeping head, my love (1937) Lines 1-2, Written January 1937; also known as Lullaby.