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Never shall state nor gold Shelter his heart from aching Whoso the Altar of Justice old Spurneth to night unwaking.

From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.

By spirits of the deep He’s cradled on the billow To his unwaking sleep.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas

Can it be that Christ and Herod, Paul and Nero, Timour and Fenelon, drop through the blind trap of death into precisely the same condition of unwaking sleep?

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

Must I go to sleep among the unwaking, with no one to rouse me?

From Lilith, a romance by MacDonald, George

A hard, unwaking sleep has overpowered Her limbs, and now the flowered Cool muslin and the ribbon snoods are bootless, The gilded girdles fruitless.

From Laments by Prall, Dorothea