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All its guns were concentrated upon Dixmude and the surrounding trenches. In the darkness close under a stable wall I stood listening to the great crashes for an hour, when I had not expected such a grace of life. Inside the stable, soldiers were sleeping in the straw, careless that any moment a shell might burst through upon them and give them unwaking sleep. The hour seemed a night.
Never shall state nor gold Shelter his heart from aching Whoso the Altar of Justice old Spurneth to night unwaking. The Agamemnon was written when Athens stood at the height of her glory and her power, and before her sons, following the devices of their hearts, 'like a boy chasing a wingèd bird', had set a fatal stumbling-block in the way of their city, or smirched her with an intolerable stain.
The trials and vexations of the road were mere nothings to be endured, compared to the sights we were then leaving. Even what we first supposed were cattle lying down, were only bed-grounds, the occupants having been humanely relieved by unwaking sleep. Powerless to render any assistance, we trailed away, glad to blot from our sight and memory such scenes of misery and death.
So when she slept the unwaking sleep, Ruth, I came here and made her bed with my own hands, and then carried her to it, covered her, and she sleeps well. I never have regretted her going. Life did not bring her joy. She was very tired.
'I sleep lightly, as do all old men; but last night I slept unwaking till broad day. Even now I am heavy. 'Drink a draught of hot milk, said Kim, who had carried not a few such remedies to opium-smokers of his acquaintance. 'It is time to take the Road again. 'The long Road that overpasses all the rivers of Hind, said the lama gaily. 'Let us go.
Was it here lay my choice of a bed? Must I go to sleep among the unwaking, with no one to rouse me? Was this the sexton's library? were these his books? Truly it was no half-way house, this chamber of the dead! "One of the cellars I am placed to watch!" remarked Mr. Raven in a low voice, as if fearing to disturb his silent guests. "Much wine is set here to ripen!
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