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Sleep is a death, O make me try By sleeping, what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed.

Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Religio medici. Pseudoxia epidemica, books 1-3”, p.113
Sleep is a death, O make me try By sleeping, what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed.