Show SLUMBER LIKENED TO FROST really poetic idea in comparison de tween the sleepy time and the ice king looking at a white birch stick in ili the fire tonight I 1 was struck by the likeness in the effect of fire and water A line of flame crept slowly across the smooth white bark driving up tip a little wrinkle before it like one of the lines left on an sea sand by tho the returning waves great is the indestructibility of logs I 1 sometimes recognize on tho the fire a stick slick which I 1 cut a week a month or even a year before the approach of sleep is much like the freezing of water in pond or bowl faint dart from the sides motes and dots barely perceptible swim in the midst one might imagine the process not less grateful to the long unsheltered mere than to the merely longing brain for as the one desires des tres for tho the time being to be defended from that thought which Is its own component essence so might tho the other seek a coat proof against tho the plunge of an icicle formed of a like element slight agitation applied w v a 1 judgment will help the matter on the introduction of a finger will sometimes change a bowl of congealing water to a solid mass a bit of ice slid in at the proper moment will help on the waters freez freezing ipg and so will thinking on your latest dream help to induce slumber transparent and cold as are ice ce and sleep nothing will keep bra brain n and water safer eater and warmer all glances from them and naught stirs up mud or mood the parallel holds to the last for nothing can more resemble the rude awakening of a than tile the sudden breaking of ice fee and nothing is more like a gradual aal pleasant wakening than the melting thaw where beginning and end cud are alike indiscernible |