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I wasn’t really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness.
I wasn’t really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness.
 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. 
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.
 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. 
 What means this heaviness that hangs upon me?
 This lethargy that creeps through all my senses?
  Nature, read more 
 What means this heaviness that hangs upon me?
 This lethargy that creeps through all my senses?
  Nature, oppress'd and harrass'd out with care,
   Sinks down to rest. 
 But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait
 At the portcullis, at thy castle gate,
  Longing read more 
 But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait
 At the portcullis, at thy castle gate,
  Longing to see the charmed door of dreams
   Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep! 
 Still believe that ever round you
 Spirits float who watch and wait;
  Nor forget the twain who read more 
 Still believe that ever round you
 Spirits float who watch and wait;
  Nor forget the twain who found you
   Sleeping nigh the Golden Gate. 
 Visit her, gentle Sleep! with wings of healing,
 And may this storm be but a mountain-birth,
  May read more 
 Visit her, gentle Sleep! with wings of healing,
 And may this storm be but a mountain-birth,
  May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling,
   Silent as though they watched the sleeping Earth! 
 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: read more 
 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and 
drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.