" Then spake of blood-red blossoms, bitter, sweet, And with her white lips sighing this, she sunk Into what seemed to be a dreamless sleep.

So successful was this prescription that when I did drop off it was into a deep, dreamless slumber which was only broken by the appearance of Gertie 'Uggins with a cup of tea at eight o'clock the next morning.

What is Nirvana but an escape from death and deliverance from mortal desires, where there are neither ideas nor the absence of ideas; no changes or hopes or fears, it is true, but also no joy, no aspiration, no growth, no life,a state of nonentity, where even consciousness is practically extinguished, and individuality merged into absolute stillness and a dreamless rest?

Better thet all our ships an' all their crews Should sink to rot in ocean's dreamless ooze, Each torn flag wavin' chellenge ez it went, An' each dumb gun a brave man's moniment, Than seek sech peace ez only cowards crave: Give me the peace of dead men or of brave!

the earth is full of cries and moans, And dull despair, that neither moans nor cries; Thousands of hearts are waiting the last day, For what they know not, but with hope of change, Of resurrection, or of dreamless death.

Death were a blessing, yea, a gentle sleep To feel delicious numbness seize my limbs, Mine eyes grow heavy, and the weary flight Of immemorial time forever stayed In sleep, in dreamless sleepwould I might die!

There the sisters, inseparable in life, lie side by side next the "Evergreen Path," in that "dreamless realm of silence.

Sleep is well for dreamless head, At no breath astonishèd, From the Gardens of the Dead.

A weakness overtook me, and I lay for many dreamless hours naked on the marble floor. 'Does the fool think to hide ought from my eyes?