By My Window II + What Is Sleep?

By My Window II by B.Held

from “What Is Sleep?” by C. B. Langston

Sleep is the gift of gifts! most prized! most sweet!

The grant of mercy from offended heav'n!

The golden sceptre of the King of kings!

Nature's great fold, where, all who enter in,

The fierce, the strong, the wretched, and the vile,

Are by its mystic influence, made lambs!

Sleep is a shadow to eclipse the mind--

A sombre veil, that shrouds its dazzling light,

To give it greater lustre when withdrawn;

A sea of fathomless nonentity,

Wherein the senses bathe their weary pow'rs,

And noble reason quaffs refreshing dews!