Only in hope he'll wash them in the Lethe of their cares. MEN.

In that dim world there flows no cooling stream, No Lethe for the guilty and the fever'd, There is no answer to their parching scream, From hope and mercy they are ever sever'd, There is no waking from their spectral dream.

For that I decocted Lethe in his cup.

At first I looked with vague and motionless curiosity out of the Lethe from which my mind slowly emerged; painless, and at peace; listlessly questioning whether I was alive or dead,whether the limp weight lying in bed there was my body,the meaning of the silence and the closed curtains.

This was Lethe to Cottle, and his poor face wet with tears, and his kind eye brightened up in a moment.