I looked about the little shop, as gloomy and Sleepful as the mausoleum of an eastern king, and wondered by what alchemy of the mind the little druggist found it a very vortex of activity.
"Moonbeams From the Larger Lunacy"
Stephen Leacock
Yet long shall the time pass over ere thy waking-day be born: Fare forth, and forget and be weary 'neath the Sting of the Sleepful Thorn!
"The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs"
William Morris
140 All hail, O Day All hail, O Day 141 the Sting of the Sleepful Thorn!
"The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs"
William Morris