# Quote — James Thomson, City Of Dreadful Night

> The City is of Night, but not of Sleep;
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> There sweet sleep is not for the weary brain;
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> The pitiless hours like years and ages creep,
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> A night seems termless hell.

- Author: [James Thomson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-thomson.md)
- Book: [City Of Dreadful Night](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-thomson/city-of-dreadful-night.md)
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## More from this book

> For life is but a dream whose shapes return,
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> Some frequently, some seldom, some by night
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> And some by day.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-thomson/city-of-dreadful-night/for-life-is-but.md)

> The City is of Night; perchance of Death,
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> But certainly of Night; for never there
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> Can come the lucid morning's fragrant breath
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> After the dewy dawning's cold grey air.

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> The world rolls round for ever like a mill;
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> It grinds out death and life and good and ill;
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> It has no purpose, heart or mind or will.

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