capacity, which is the dream's, is punctual to
the night, even though sleep and the dream be
kept at arm's length.

The child, not asleep, but passing through
the hours of sleep and their dominions, knows
that the mood of night will have its hour; he
puts off his troubled heart, and will answer it
another time, in the other state, 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, not to be interchanged, and com-
municating 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 imag-
ine the rhythmic experience of a poet, subject,
like a child, to the time, and tempering the ex-
tremities of either state by messages of remem-
brance and expectancy.

Never to have had a brilliant dream, and
never to have had any delirium, would be to
live too much in the day; and hardly less
would be the loss of him who had not exercised
his waking thought under the influence of the

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