Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1915 — Sleep. [ARTICLE]

Sleep.

For do but consider what an excellent thing sleep is! It is so inestimable a jewel that, if a tyrant would give his crown for an hour’s slumber, it cannot be bought; of so beautiful a shape is it that, though a man live with an empress, his heart cannot be at quiet till he leaves her embracements to be at rest with the other; yea, so greatly are we Indebted to this kinsman of death, that we owe the better tributary half of our life to him; and there is good cause why we should do so; for sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. Who complains of want, of w'ounds, of cares, of great men’s oppressions, of captivity, whilst he sleepeth?—Thomas Dekker.