A SLEEPiNI CITY.
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Ii will be understood that the speaker
dwells IN the highestsrory of the highest
house IN the place; ashe speaks he looks.
by night, over the Sleeping city, and thus
he moralizes:


"Ah, my friend, it is true sublimiiy to
dwell here. These iringes OF lamplirht.
struggling up throushsnoke and thousand.
io!d exhalation, some fathoms into the an.
clent reign of Nigh, what thinks Bootes
OF them, as he leads his Hunting Dogs over
the Zenith in their leash Of sidereal fire.
That siilled hum Of Midnight, when Traffic
has lam down TO -esi; and the chariot
wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and
there through distant streets, are bearing
her 10 Halls roofel in, and lighted TO the
due pitch for her; and only Vice and Mis-
cry. 10 prowl or 10 moan, like nirhtbirds.
are abroad: that hun, | say. like the stem
torious. unquiet slimbcr uf sick Life, is
heard IN Heaveni Oh. under that hdeous
coverlet OF vapors, and pu;rciactions. and
unimagInable gasea what Fermeniing. = at
lies simmering ani hidi The joyful and
sorrowlul are there; men are praying-on
the other side OF a brick partition, men
are cursing; and ;.ound them all is the
vast; void Night. The proud Grandee
still fingers in his PcFinmcd saloons, or re-
poses within damisk curtains; Wretchcd-
ness covers in trucklc beds. OF shivers hun
ger-siricken into h.s lair Of straw: in OBJ
scure cellars, R9ugc-cf-lNOir, langndly
emits its voice f.de .:inyio haggard hungry
Villains; while Councillors o. State sit plot.
ting, and playing their high chess. game
whereof the pawIs are Men. The Lover
whispers his mist'css that the coach is
ready; and she, ful Of hope and fear, glidcs
down, TO fly with him over the borders:
the Thief, still mere silently, scts-to his
picklocks and crovbars, or turks in wait till
the watchmen first shnne in their boxes.
Gay mansions, witt supper-rooms and dan
cling. rooms, are ful If light and music and
high swelling heart; but, in the Condemn
ed Cells, the pulse Of life beats trcmulous
aud faint, and bDodshot eyes look out
through the darkness, which il around and
within, for the ligh of stern last morning.
Six men are TO behanged on the morrow:
comes no hammernI from the RIbeHaciRt
their gallows musteven now be a building.
Upwards of five htn1red thousand two-leg-
ged animals without feathers lie round us,
in horizontal position; their heads all in
nghtcaps, and full ;. the ioolishest dreams.
Riot cries aloud, ans s,aggnrs and swaggers
in his rank dens Of shame; ami the Mother
with streaming har, kneels over her pallid
dying infant, who's, cracked lips only her
tears now moisien All these heapcd and
huddled together, with nothing but little
carpentry and ms s,nry between them;
crammed in, like sd ed fish in their barrel:
or weltering, shall I ny, like m Egyptian
pitcher of tanned Nper-, each struggling %
get its head ADORE the others: sHch work
goes on under that smoke -connicrpancl
But |, meia WeTthor, Ill above il all; am
alone with the Stars


Cwlble's iSariOa ResdrfnS.