“One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.”
John Donne book Holy Sonnets
No. 10, line 13
Holy Sonnets (1633)
“Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall sleep no more!”
Source: Macbeth
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