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So when she slept the unwaking sleep, Ruth, I came here and made her bed with my own hands, and then carried her to it, covered her, and she sleeps well.

From The Harvester by Stratton-Porter, Gene

A hard, unwaking sleep has overpowered Her limbs, and now the flowered Cool muslin and the ribbon snoods are bootless, The gilded girdles fruitless.

From Laments by Prall, Dorothea

Must I go to sleep among the unwaking, with no one to rouse me?

From Lilith, a romance by MacDonald, George

Never shall state nor gold Shelter his heart from aching Whoso the Altar of Justice old Spurneth to night unwaking.

From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.

By spirits of the deep He’s cradled on the billow To his unwaking sleep.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas