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    Michael Angelo's statue of Sleeping Night is grateful to be bound in stone and unconscious of the world's woes. More grateful still is that as a marble statue, it cannot see or hear the shameless wrongs and woes that prevail. The statue begs to remain undisturbed in peaceful sleep, finding it sweet to live without life and die without death through sleep's imitation of death.

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    Michael Angelo's statue of Sleeping Night is grateful to be bound in stone and unconscious of the world's woes. More grateful still is that as a marble statue, it cannot see or hear the shameless wrongs and woes that prevail. The statue begs to remain undisturbed in peaceful sleep, finding it sweet to live without life and die without death through sleep's imitation of death.

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    Michael Angelo's statue of Sleeping Night is grateful to be bound in stone and unconscious of the world's woes. More grateful still is that as a marble statue, it cannot see or hear the shameless wrongs and woes that prevail. The statue begs to remain undisturbed in peaceful sleep, finding it sweet to live without life and die without death through sleep's imitation of death.

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    MICHAEL ANGELO IN REPLY TO THE PASSAGE UPON HIS STATUE OF

    NIGHT SLEEPING
    William Wordsworth

    'Night Speaks'

    GRATEFUL is Sleep, my life in stone bound fast;


    More grateful still: while wrong and shame shall last,
    On me can Time no happier state bestow
    Than to be left unconscious of the woe.
    Ah then, lest you awaken me, speak low.
    Grateful is Sleep, more grateful still to be
    Of marble; for while shameless wrong and woe
    Prevail, 'tis best to neither hear nor see.
    Then wake me not, I pray you. Hush, speak low.
    Come, gentle Sleep, Death's image tho' thou art, 10
    Come share my couch, nor speedily depart;
    How sweet thus living without life to lie,
    Thus without death how sweet it is to die.
    1806.

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