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 When the sheep are in the fauld, and a' the kye at hame,
 And all the weary world to read more 
 When the sheep are in the fauld, and a' the kye at hame,
 And all the weary world to sleep are gane. 
 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the 
bread of sorrows: read more 
 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the 
bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep. 
 Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! 
it covers a man all over, thoughts and read more 
 Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! 
it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is 
meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, 
and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all 
the pleasures of the world cheap; and the balance that sets the 
king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even. There is 
only one thing, which somebody once put into my head, that I 
dislike in sleep; it is, that it resembles death; there is very 
little difference between a man in his first sleep, and a man in 
his last sleep. 
 What probing deep
 Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?  
 What probing deep
 Has ever solved the mystery of sleep? 
Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.
Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.
It is not good a sleping hound to wake.
It is not good a sleping hound to wake.
 Sleep hath its own world,
 A boundary between the things misnamed
  Death and existence: Sleep hath its read more 
 Sleep hath its own world,
 A boundary between the things misnamed
  Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world,
   And a wide realm of wild reality,
    And dreams in their development have breath,
     And tears and tortures, and the touch of joy. 
 How happy he whose toil
 Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd
  A pleasing lassitude; he not read more 
 How happy he whose toil
 Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd
  A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain
   Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams.
    His pow'rs the most voluptuously dissolve
     In soft repose; on him the balmy dews
      Of Sleep with double nutriment descend. 
 Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions:
 How he sware unto the Lord, and vowed unto the mighty God read more 
 Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions:
 How he sware unto the Lord, and vowed unto the mighty God of 
Jacob;
  Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up 
into my bed;
   I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,
    Until I find a place for the Lord, an habitation for the mighty 
God of Jacob.