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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

Alexander Pope
Sleep, Giving, Painful
'The Dunciad' (1742) bk. 1, l. 93
While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.