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Excerpt from Saint Patrick, Vol. 2 of 3: A National Tale of the Fifth Century One thing we know, that it is the only power which can wrestle with the passions, and tame them to submission and, howe ver strong theyomay appear, or however fierce they may rage, sleep never fails to strangle their violence. The poetical night thinker, therefore, belies, tir'd nature's sweet re storer, when he says she flies from woe On the contraryy'she is its only soother, and never ceases to hover round the pillow ofz agi tation till she still its workings. She has no power, however, over dreams, which come and depart without her bidding, and often conti nue or renew the mental struggle which she has succeeded for a moment to quell. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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