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indeed   the   signs   of   a   new   and   universal   healththe   prophecy   of   human 

unity�拭�

     The sign might have been a more manifest and a happier prophecy had 

this union of tenderness taken the gay occasion as often as the sad。 Except 

at   times�察  �in   the   single   case   of   Mme。   de   Sevigne�察  �all   three   far   more 

sensitive than the rest of the worldwere yet not sensitive enough to feel 

equally the less sharp communication of joy。               They claimed�察�owned�察�and 

felt sensibly the pangs and not the pleasures of the absent。               Or if not only 

the   pangs�察  �at   least   they   were   apprehensive   chiefly   in   that   sense   which 

human       anxiety    and   foreboding      have    lent   to  the   word�察   �they    were 

apprehensive   of   what   they   feared。      ;Are   you   warm�拭─  �writes   Marceline 

Valmore  to   her   child。  ;You   have   so   little  to   wearare  you   really  warm�拭�

Oh�察�take care of mecover me well。;               Elsewhere she says�察 �You are an 



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insolent   child   to   think   of   work。   Nurse   your   health�察  �and   mine。       Let   us 

live   like   fools;�察  �whereby   she   meant   that   she   should   work   with   her   own 

fervent   brain   for   both�察  �and   take   the   while   her   rest   in   Ondine。    If   this 

living and unshortened love was sad�察�it must be owned that so�察�too�察�was 

the   story。   Eugenie   and   Maurice   de   Guerin   were   both   to   die   soon�察  �and 

Marceline was to lose this daughter and another。 

     But set free from the condition and occasion of pain and sorrow�察�this 

life without boundaries which mothers have undergone seems to suggest 

and to portend what the progressive charity of generations may beand is�察�

in fact�察�though the continuity does not always appearin the course of the 

world。     If a love and life without boundaries go down from a mother into 

her   child�察  �and   from  that   child   into   her   children   again�察  �then   incalculable�察�

intricate�察�universal�察�and eternal are the unions that seemand only seem 

so to transcend the usual experience。               The love of such a mother passes 

unchanged out of her own sight。               It drops down ages�察�but why should it 

alter�拭  �What   in   her   daughter   should   she   make   so   much   her   own   as   that 

daughter's love for her daughter in turn�拭             �There are no lapses。 

     Marceline Valmore�察  �married   to   an   actor   who   seems   to   have   ;created 

the classic genre; in vain�察�found the sons and daughters of other women in 

want。     Some of her rich friends�察�she avers�察�seem to think that the sadness 

of her poems is a habita matter of metre and rhyme�察�or�察�at most�察�that it is 

;temperament。;         But   others   take   up   the   cause   of   those   whose   woes�察  �as 

she says�察�turned her long hair white too soon。                Sainte´Beuve gave her his 

time   and   influence�察  �succoured   twenty  political   offenders   at   her   instance�察�

and   gave   perpetually   to   her   poor。     ;He   never   has   any   socks�察─  �said   his 

mother�察 �he gives them all away�察�like Beranger。;                   ;He gives them with a 

different accent�察─�added the literary Marceline。 

     Even   when   the  stroller's   life   took her  to towns   she   did not   hate�察  �but 

lovedher own Douai�察�where the names of the streets made her heart leap�察�

and where her statue stands�察�and Bordeaux�察�which was�察�in her eyes�察 �rosy 

with the reflected colour of its animating wine; she was taken away from 

the country of her verse。          The field and the village had been dear to her�察�

and her poems no longer trail and droop�察�but take wing�察�when they come 

among winds�察�birds�察�bells�察�and waves。               They fly with the whole volley of 



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a summer morning。            She loved the sun and her liberty�察�and the liberty of 

others。     It   was   apparently   a   horror   of   prisons   that   chiefly   inspired   her 

public efforts after certain riots at Lyons had been reduced to peace。                     The 

dead   were   free�察�but   for   the prisoners   she   worked�察 �wrote�察  �and   petitioned。 

She looked at the sentinels at the gates of the Lyons gaols with such eyes 

as might have provoked a shot�察�she thinks。 

     During      her   lifetime    she   very    modestly     took    correction     from    her 

contemporaries�察�for her study had hardly been enough for the whole art of 

French verse。        But   Sainte´Beuve�察  �Baudelaire�察  �and Verlaine have   praised 

her    as  one   of   the  poets    of  France。     The    later   critics  from    Verlaine 

onwardswill hold that she needs no pardon for certain slight irregularities 

in the grouping of masculine and   feminine rhymes�察�for upon this   liberty 

they     themselves       have    largely    improved。        The      old   rules    in   their 

completeness seemed too much like a prison to her。                      She was set about 

with     importunate      conditionsa     caesura�察    �a  rhyme�察    �narrow    lodgings     in 

strange   towns�察  �bankruptcies�察  �salaries   astrayand           she   took   only   a   little 

gentle liberty。 



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                  THE HOURS OF SLEEP 



     There are hours claimed by Sleep�察�but refused to him。                  None the less 

are they his by some state   within the mind�察�which answers   rhythmically 

and   punctually   to   that   claim。    Awake   and   at   work�察  �without   drowsiness�察�

without languor�察�and without gloom�察�the night mind of man is yet not his 

day   mind�察  �he   has   night´powers   of   feeling   which   are   at   their   highest   in 

dreams�察  �but   are   night's   as   well   as   sleep's。 The   powers   of   the   mind   in 

dreams�察  �which   are   inexplicable�察  �are   not   altogether   baffled   because   the 

mind is awake�察�it is the hour of their return as it is the hour of a tide's�察�and 

they do return。 

     In sleep they have their free way。           Night then has nothing to hamper 

her influence�察�and she draws the emotion�察�the senses�察�and the nerves of the 

sleeper。     She     urges   him    upon    those    extremities    of   anger   and    love�察�

contempt      and   terror   to  which    not   only   can   no  event    of  the  real  day 

persuade him�察�but for which�察�awake�察�he has perhaps not even the capacity。 

This increase of   capacity�察 �which is the dream's�察 �is   punctual to the   night�察�

even though sleep and the dream be kept at arm's length。 

     The child�察�not asleep�察�but passing through the hours of sleep and their 

dominions�察�knows that the mood of night will have its hour�察�he puts off his 

troubled heart�察�and will answer it another time�察�in the other state�察�by day。 

;I shall be able to bear this when I am grown up; is not oftener in a young 

child's mind than ;I shall endure to think of it in the day´time。;                  By this 

he    confesses     the    double    habit    and    double    experience�察     �not   to   be 

interchanged�察�and communicating together only by memory and hope。 

     Perhaps it will be found that to work all by day or all by night is to 

miss   something   of the powers   of   a   complex   mind。         One   might   imagine 

the rhythmic experience of a poet�察�subject�察�like a   child�察�to the time�察  �and 

tempering the extremities of either state by messages of remembrance and 

expectancy。 

     Never     to  have   had   a  brilliant   dream�察   �and   never    to  have   had   any 

delirium�察�would be to live too much in the day�察�and hardly less would be 

the   loss   of   him   who   had   not   exercised   his   waking   thought   under   the 



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influence of the hours claimed by dreams。                 And as to choosing between 

day and night�察�or guessing whether the state of day or dark is the truer and 

the more natural�察�he would be rash who should make too sure。 

     In order to live the life of night�察�a watcher must not wake too much。 

That is�察�he should not alter so greatly the character of night as to lose the 

solitude�察�the visible darkness�察�or the quietude。             The hours of sleep are too 

much   altered   when   they   are   filled   by   lights   and   crowds�察  �and   Nature   is 

cheated so�察�and evaded�察�and her rhythm broken�察�as when the larks caged in 

populous streets make ineffectual springs and sing daybreak songs when 

the London gas is lighted。           Nature is easily deceived�察�and the muse�察�like 

the lark�察�may be set all astray as to the hour。            You may spend the peculiar 

hours of sleep amid so much noise and among so many people that you 

shall not be   aware of   them�察  �you   may  thus   merely force   and   prolong the 

day。    But to do so is not to live well both lives�察�it is not to yield to the 

daily and nightly rise and fall and to be cradled in the swing of change。 

     There surely never was a poet but was now and then rocked in such a 

cradle of alternate hours。         ;It cannot be�察─�says Herbert�察 �that I am he on 

whom Thy tempests fell all night。; 

     It is in the hours of sleep that the mind�察�by some divine paradox�察�has 

the  extremest   sense   of   light。    Almost   the   most   shining   lines   in   English 

poetrylines      that   cast   sunrise    shadowsare      those    of   Blake�察   �written 

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