Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies.

Here are cool mosses deep,

And thro' the mass the ivies creep,

And in the stream the long-leaved flowers weep.

And from the craggy ledge the poppy hangs in sleep.

Alfred Tennyson.


XXXV.

I went into the deserts of dim sleep—

That world which, like an unknown wilderness,