“His life is a watch or a vision
Between a sleep and a sleep.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
Second chorus, lines 57-58.
Atalanta in Calydon (1865)
“Sleep, Nurse of our life, Care’s best reposer,
Nature's high'st rapture, and the vision giver.”
"To his Mistress for her True Picture", line 11
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Albert Pike book Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Source: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871), Ch. XIX : Grand Pontiff, p. 317