“Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.”
Gregory Maguire book A Lion Among Men
Source: A Lion Among Men
“She sleeps!—so sleeps the wretch beside the stake:
She sleeps!—how dreadful from such sleep to wake!”
Title poem, section V.
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
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