THE BRETHREN
SLUMBER and Sleep, two brethren ordain'd by the gods to their
service,
Were by Prometheus implored, comfort to give to his race;
But though so light to the gods, too heavy for man was their burden,
We in their slumber find sleep, we in their sleep meet with death.
1789.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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