GENERAL.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 14554, 23 June 1913, Page 7

GENERAL.

SLEEP.

■. ■ _>— ijv—Shakespeare has said the most jeautiful words that have evar been lttered about sleep, and that beiause he knew what it was to seek ipr it in vain— "Methought I heard a voice cry, 1 Sleep no more ! Macbeth does murder sleep,' the innocent sleep ;. Sleep that knits,up., the ravell'd sleave of care, ' The death of each day's life, sort labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great Nature's second; course, ; Chief nourisher in life's feast." And again, when the Btrenoious life of the great Bolingbroke has at last overtaxed his brain, and he can no more find rest and 1 unconsciousness at night, Shakespeare makes' him say— "How many thousand; of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, ..;, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather, sleep, lietst- thou in smoky cribs, ; Upon uneasy pallets stretching o thee, And hush'd with buzzing nightflies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers o! the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd* with sound of sweetest melody?"