THE BRETHREN.

Portrait of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749–1832
4The Poems

SLUMBER and Sleep, two brethren ordain'd by the gods to their service,

Were by Prometheus implored, comfort to give to his race; But though so light to the gods, too heavy for man was their burden,

We in their slumber find sleep, we in their sleep meet with death.

                                1789.*

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