Dreams and Wakings V.

CHAPTER IV DREAMS AND WAKINGS

Poppea some new favour will seeke out My wakings to salute; I cannot stirre But messages of new preferment meet me.

And we made journeys sixteen hours long, and did eat and drink at the sixth and the twelfth hours, and likewise we eat and drank ere we slept, and again upon our wakings; and our slumber-time to go alway somewheres about eight good hours; for thus did I be heedful that we have all our strength for that dreadness of the journey, which did be yet before us, across the fear and horrid terror of the Night Land.

His sleeps and his wakings are so much the same that he knows not how to distinguish them, and many times when he dreams he believes he is broad awake and sees visions.

"Eatings, drinkings, wakings, sleepings, walkings, talkings, sayings, doingsall were for the good of the public; there was not such a things as a secret in the town.

The days pass in a slow, dull march: the nights are the test; the sudden wakings from restless sleep, the revived knowledge that one lies in her grave, and another, not at my side, but in a separate and sick bed."

Their slumbers are sound, and their wakings cheerful.

"Thirty-five years earlier he wrote one morning in his journal: 'I said, when I awoke, after some more sleepings and wakings I shall lie on this mattress sick; then dead; and through my gay entry they will carry these bones.